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Omelet in Batter

A fried omelet coated in a batter of eggs, milk, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Omelet in Batter

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelet

  1. Fry an omelet.

  2. Cut the omelet into squares or diamonds.

Batter and fry

  1. Dip each piece in a batter made of eggs and milk mixed with enough flour to achieve a batter consistency.

  2. Fry the battered pieces in hot salted lard until they are a delicate brown.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the omelet and bind the batter, giving the coating structure once fried.
Wheat flour
Thickens the milk and egg mixture into a batter that clings to the omelet pieces.
Milk
Thins the batter to a coating consistency and adds moisture to the cooked pieces.
Salted lard
Conducts heat for frying and browns the batter coating to a golden colour.

The step that matters

Frying the battered pieces in hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the batter absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of crisping and browning. Frying at proper heat sets the coating quickly so it stays light.

“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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