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Omelet with Parsley

A quick egg omelette flavored with fresh parsley, salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Omelet with Parsley

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs until well mixed.

  2. Add chopped parsley, salt, and pepper; mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet.

  3. Cook until the edges set, then gently lift the edges to allow uncooked egg to flow underneath.

  4. When the top is slightly set, fold the omelet in half and serve.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a delicate structure that forms the body of the omelette.
Fresh parsley
Adds a fresh, herbal aroma and flavour to the eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and helps prevent the egg from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Cook until the edges set, then lift the edges. Eggs cook quickly over medium heat, so timing matters. Once the edges set, lifting them lets runny egg flow underneath to cook evenly. Cooking too long or too hot makes the omelette dry, tough, and browned.

“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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