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Sweet Omelette Aux Cokfitures

A sweet omelette cooked with butter, topped with jam and sifted sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and apricot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,458 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Omelette Aux Cokfitures

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl until well mixed.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.

Cook and fill

  1. Pour the eggs into the pan and cook until firm and browned on one side.

  2. Carefully turn the omelet onto a hot dish.

  3. Spread the jam over the middle of the omelet and fold the sides over.

Finish and serve

  1. Sprinkle sifted sugar on top and serve immediately.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + apricottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding it together.
Butter
Fats the pan so the eggs release cleanly and brown lightly on the surface.
Jam
Adds sweetness and moisture to the filling, softening slightly as the omelet warms.
Sugar
Adds sweetness on top and a light, sweet contrast to the warm eggs.

The step that matters

Pour the eggs into the pan and cook until firm and browned on one side. Cooking over medium heat sets the eggs gently while the underside browns. Too much heat toughens and dries the eggs before the omelet can be folded, while too little leaves the top runny and hard to turn.

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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