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Sardine Omelette

A fried omelette with sardines.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sardine Omelette

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Melt the butter in a chafing dish or frying pan over medium heat.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and mix in the cream and salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the hot pan and cook until it reaches the desired consistency.

  2. Place small pieces of sardines on top of the omelette, roll it up, and serve on a hot platter.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 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. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette as they cook.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the eggs, keeping the omelette tender.
Butter
Fat that greases the pan and adds richness and flavor to the omelette.
Sardines
Add savory, salty flavor and a rich fish taste to the filling.

The step that matters

Cook until it reaches the desired consistency. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the pan, so over-cooking makes the omelette dry and rubbery. Removing it while still slightly moist keeps it tender.

“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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