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Delicious Omelet

A tomato and mushroom omelet cooked with veal, tongue, or chicken, served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Delicious Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a frying pan, stir together the butter and flour until combined.

  2. When the mixture boils, pour in the tomatoes and add the mushrooms.

  3. Add the veal, tongue, or chicken mixed with the chopped onions and stir for five minutes.

Cook and serve

  1. Break in the eggs and season with salt and cayenne pepper.

  2. Serve the omelet on thin slices of toast.

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. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Melts with the flour to form a base that thickens the mixture and adds richness.
Flour
Thickens the butter and the juices from the tomatoes and mushrooms into a body.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that give the filling its fresh, tangy flavour.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the filling.
Veal, tongue, or chicken
Adds savoury meat flavour and some protein to the filling.
Eggs
Set when heated, binding the filling together and giving the omelet its structure.

The step that matters

Break in the eggs and season with salt and cayenne pepper. Eggs set with heat, so they should be added once the filling is hot and cooked through, then left just long enough to set. Overcooking makes them tough and dry, and seasoning lightly and evenly keeps the flavour balanced.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, mushroom, veal, onion, egg, pepper):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, mushroom, veal, onion, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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