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Tbupfle Omelet

A savory omelet with truffles, parsley, shallots, sherry, and demi‑glace sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Tbupfle Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelet

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

  2. In a skillet, cook the eggs over medium heat until set.

  3. Add the chopped truffles, parsley, and shallots to the eggs.

Make the sauce

  1. In a separate pan, boil the sliced truffles in sherry until tender.

  2. Add the demi‑glace sauce to the truffles and mix well.

Assemble and serve

  1. Once the omelet is cooked, place the sliced truffles in the center.

  2. Fold the omelet over with a knife or spoon to shape it nicely.

  3. Transfer the omelet to an oval dish and pour the sauce around the base.

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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Truffle + shallottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 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 to form the omelet's structure and body when cooked.
Sliced truffles
Provide the main earthy, aromatic flavour of the dish.
Shallots
Add a mild, sweet onion-like savour to the filling.
Sherry
Adds acidity and depth as the truffles simmer into the sauce.
Demi-glace sauce
Adds rich, savoury body to the sauce served with the omelet.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, truffle, parsley, pepper, sherry, sauce):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Carrotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, truffle, parsley, pepper, sherry, sauce. 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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