Name: Omelettes
Ingredients: fish roes; unpressed caviar; preserved tunny fish; sardines; parsley

Why it works: Fish and roe work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Omelettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling using fish roes, unpressed caviar, preserved tunny fish, or sardines.
Enclose the filling in the omelette.
Invert the omelette onto a dish.
Garnish with crisped parsley.

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.

Fish + roetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together118 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Roe + caviartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together12 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Fish + parsleytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,341 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Fish + caviartop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Roe + parsleytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together259 recipes

Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).