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Cheese Omelets

A quick cheese omelet made by beating grated cheese with eggs, seasoning, and cooking in a pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Gruyere cheese and egg work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Cheese Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In an earthen dish, beat the grated cheese with the eggs.

  2. Season with salt and pepper according to the saltiness of the cheese.

  3. Pour the mixture into a frying pan and cook until set.

  4. Serve immediately while 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.

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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. Gruyere cheese + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Gruyere cheese + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 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 into a tender structure as they cook, forming the body of the omelette.
Gruyere cheese
Melts into the eggs, adding richness and a savoury, nutty flavour.

The step that matters

Cook until set. Eggs turn from liquid to firm as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking too long or too hot makes them dry and rubbery, while stopping too early leaves a runny centre.

“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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