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Beef Omelet

A baked beef omelet roll served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Beef Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the beef

  1. Chop the beefsteak finely.

  2. Season the beef with salt, pepper, sweet marjoram, and summer savory.

Assemble and bake

  1. Beat the eggs thoroughly and add them to the beef mixture.

  2. Mix everything together and roll it up tightly.

  3. Place it in a dripping pan and bake at 350°F (175°C) for nearly one hour.

Cool and serve

  1. Let it cool, then cut into thin slices to serve cold.

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. Marjoram + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + summer savorytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Summer savory + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Marjoram + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beefsteak
Forms the main body of the omelet and gives it a meaty, savory texture when baked.
Eggs
Bind the chopped beef together and set during baking to hold the roll's shape.

The step that matters

Roll it up tightly. A tight roll keeps the chopped beef and egg compact, so the log holds together during baking and cuts into clean, even slices once cooled.

Swap the marjoram

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

  1. Marjoramthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Sagefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, summer savory, egg. 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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