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Egg Omelette

A lightly beaten egg mixture cooked in butter, finished in the oven, then inverted onto a hot platter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Egg Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the eggs

  1. Beat the eggs until very light.

  2. Add the milk and salt, and mix well.

Cook and bake

  1. Melt the butter in a hot skillet.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet.

  3. When partly cooked, remove from heat and bake in the oven at 400°F (200°C) until firm.

Serve

  1. Place a hot platter on top of the omelette, invert quickly, 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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
Provide the main structure as proteins set when heated, forming the omelette's body.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, keeping the omelette tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Removing the omelette from heat before it is fully set. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the stove. Removing the pan while the omelette is only partly cooked, then finishing in the oven, helps prevent it from becoming rubbery or dry.

“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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