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Jelly Omelet

An omelet folded over jelly, dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Jelly Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat the yolks of the eggs until light.

  2. Add the powdered sugar and cream, mixing well.

  3. Gently fold in the stiffened egg whites.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat the butter in a frying pan until hot.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and let it set.

  3. Spread several spoonfuls of jelly on one half of the omelet.

  4. Fold the omelet over the jelly and turn it out onto a hot platter.

  5. Sift powdered sugar over the top and serve.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Butter + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites trap air for lift, while yolks add richness and help the omelet set.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the omelet tender rather than dry.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the yolk mixture.
Butter
Fat for the pan that adds flavour and helps the omelet brown lightly.
Jelly
Adds sweet, fruity flavour and moisture inside the folded omelet.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the stiffened egg whites. Whites hold air that gives the omelet its lift. Stirring or mixing them vigorously knocks that air out, leaving a dense, flat omelet.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, cream, butter. 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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