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Omelette Febmijibe

A quick omelette with diced ham and parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,526 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Omelette Febmijibe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat and season the eggs.

  2. Add the diced ham to the eggs.

  3. Pour the mixture into an omelette pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook quickly, keeping it soft.

  2. Let the outside harden slightly.

  3. Tilt the omelette onto a dish like a pancake.

  4. Sprinkle the surface with a pinch of chopped parsley.

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.

Explore the science

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 + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

  2. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  3. Ham + parsleytop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,249 recipes

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

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 omelette's structure and give it a soft, tender texture when cooked gently.
Cooked ham
Adds savoury flavour and a firmer bite within the soft egg.

The step that matters

Cook quickly, keeping it soft. Eggs turn tough and rubbery when overcooked, because the proteins tighten and squeeze out moisture. Cooking fast over steady heat sets the eggs while leaving the centre tender.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, ham):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. White pepperfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, ham. 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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