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Ham Omelette

A fried omelette with ham, bread crumbs, milk, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ham Omelette

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the eggs until the whites and yolks are blended.

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk, then add to the eggs along with the melted butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a sheet‑iron frying pan until very hot.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook for 2 minutes, drawing the omelette away from the sides to allow uncooked parts to reach the heat.

  3. Sprinkle with pepper and add the minced ham on top.

  4. Cover the pan until the ham is hot.

  5. Loosen the omelette with a broad knife blade and roll it up.

  6. 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (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 a tender, structured omelette as they cook through.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the egg mixture.
Bread crumbs
Soak up liquid and help keep the omelette tender and moist.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavour and a tender texture.
Ham
Adds savoury flavour and salt-cured taste to the filling.

The step that matters

Drawing the omelette away from the sides. Egg sets quickly on contact with a very hot pan. Pulling the edges inward lets runny egg reach the hot surface so it cooks evenly instead of over-browning at the edges and staying wet in the middle.

“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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