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Jam Omelet

A quick omelet filled with jam and dusted with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Jam Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs and mix in the sugar, salt, and milk.

  2. Heat an omelet pan and add a little fat until it boils, then pour it off and wipe the pan dry.

Cook the omelette

  1. Add the fat or oil to the pan and heat until bubbling.

  2. Pour in the egg mixture and stir gently until lightly set.

  3. Let it cook for a minute until browned on one side.

Fill and serve

  1. Turn the omelet onto a hot dish, spread jam in the middle, and fold the edges over.

  2. Dust with sugar 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. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette as they cook, holding the filling inside.
Fat or oil
Conducts heat evenly and keeps the eggs from sticking to the pan.
Moist sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the omelette brown lightly on the surface.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the egg mixture for a tender result.
Jam
Supplies sweetness and fruit flavour in the filling.

The step that matters

Stir gently until lightly set. Gentle stirring forms soft curds that keep the omelette tender. Over-stirring or over-cooking toughens the egg proteins, making the omelette rubbery and 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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