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Cheese Omelet

A quick egg dish flavored with pepper, salt, Parmesan, and butter, finished with extra grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,041 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheese Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl and season with pepper and salt.

  2. Beat the eggs well and add the grated Parmesan cheese.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt the butter in an omelet pan over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir until it begins to set.

  3. Shake the pan gently, fold in the ends, and shape the omelet.

  4. Let it brown, then turn it out onto a hot dish.

Serve

  1. Sprinkle additional grated cheese on top 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. Parmesan cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,041 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Pepper + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 structure that forms the body of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the omelet brown lightly in the pan.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savoury flavour and browns slightly against the hot pan.

The step that matters

Stir until it begins to set, then shake and fold. Stirring keeps curds small and tender while the base sets, and folding too early or cooking too long makes the omelet tough and dry. Stop once the surface is just set and still slightly moist.

“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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