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Salmon Omelet

A fried egg dish with flaked salmon, seasonings, and parsley butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmon Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Flake the cold cooked salmon and measure out about ½ cup.

  2. Heat the salmon gently in a saucepan with any available sauce or melted butter.

  3. Season the mixture with pepper, nutmeg, and lemon juice.

  4. Ensure the mixture is thick.

Make and fill the omelet

  1. Prepare and fry the omelet as usual.

  2. Place the hot salmon mixture in the center of the omelet.

  3. Fold the omelet over the salmon mixture.

Serve

  1. Mix the chopped parsley into a lump of butter.

  2. Place the parsley butter on a hot dish.

  3. Put the omelet on top of the parsley butter.

  4. 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set and bind to form the omelet's structure around the filling.
Cold cooked salmon
Provides the main flavour and protein for the filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich salmon and butter.

The step that matters

Ensure the mixture is thick. A thin, wet filling releases liquid into the omelet as it is folded, making it soggy and likely to tear. Heating the salmon until thick lets it stay in place inside the omelet.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, salmon, lobster, butter, sauce, pepper, lemon):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, salmon, lobster, butter, sauce, pepper, lemon. 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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