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Asparagus Omelet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,338 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Asparagus Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the white sauce according to your preferred recipe.

  2. Drain and rinse the asparagus, then add it to the white sauce.

  3. Spread some of the asparagus mixture over half of the baked omelet.

  4. Fold the other half of the omelet over the filling.

  5. Transfer the omelet to a platter and pour the remaining sauce over it.

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. Asparagus + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + eggtop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Sauce and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the asparagus

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

  1. Horseradishfits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Asparagusthe original
  4. Welsh onionfits about as well

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

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