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Bread Omelet No. 2

A savory dish made by mixing eggs with milk-soaked bread crumbs and frying until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread Omelet No. 2

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Bring the milk to a boil.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs and let sit for a few minutes.

  3. In a bowl, break the eggs and stir until well mixed.

  4. Add the milk and bread mixture to the eggs, season with pepper and salt, and mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a frying pan and add the butter until it is hot.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and fry slowly.

  3. When the bottom is brown, cut into squares and turn to fry the other side until delicately brown.

  4. Serve warm.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a firm structure as they cook, holding the omelet together.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk and add body and softness to the set eggs.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds moisture to the custardy egg mixture.
Butter
Fats the pan and adds richness and browning on the surface.

The step that matters

Fry slowly. Eggs proteins set and toughen quickly over high heat, so slow cooking keeps the omelet tender and lets the centre set before the bottom over-browns.

“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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