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Pineapple Omelet

A sweet omelet made with pineapple, powdered sugar, and eggs, finished with a sprinkle of sugar and optional pineapple garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pineapple Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the omelette

  1. Prepare the omelette base as you would for a regular omelette, omitting the pepper and reducing the salt.

  2. In a bowl, mix the egg yolks with powdered sugar and grated pineapple.

  3. For variation, mix in chopped chives or parsley before cooking.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the omelette in a pan until set.

  2. Score the omelette as you would for an orange omelette.

  3. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

  4. Garnish with slices of pineapple if desired.

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. Pineapple + chivetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Egg + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 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
Provide the structure that sets into the omelette body as they cook.
Grated pineapple
Adds moisture and a bright, sweet-tart flavour to the egg mixture.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the savoury eggs and salt.

Swap the pineapple

The recipe marks pineapple as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, chive):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, chive. 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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