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A fried salt pork omelette with creamed pork and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cooking and Serving Pork

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Simmer the diced cold fried salt pork and sweet milk in a pan on the back of the stove.

Make the omelette

  1. Beat the eggs and salt in a bowl until just blended.

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

  3. Add the eggs to the pan and shake vigorously until set.

  4. Spread the hot creamed pork over the eggs, fold, and serve immediately.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Pork + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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
Set to form the omelette's structure and tender body when cooked.
Butter
Adds fat to the hot pan for richness and helps prevent the eggs from sticking.
Sweet milk
Creates a creamy, moist texture when simmered with the pork.
Salt pork
Provides savory flavor and fat, which becomes a creamy filling when simmered with milk.

The step that matters

Shaking the eggs until set. Eggs cook quickly once heat reaches them. Shaking keeps them moving so curds form evenly, and the omelette sets into a tender layer rather than a dry, overcooked one.

“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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