Name: Sweet Omelets
Ingredients: eggs; sugar; preserves (raspberry, plum jam, peach butter, or strawberry preserves); powdered sugar

Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Omelets

Ingredients

eggs
sugar
preserves (raspberry, plum jam, peach butter, or strawberry preserves)
powdered sugar

Directions

Make a plain omelet by whisking eggs and adding sugar to the yolks.
Omit pepper from the mixture.
Spread preserves on half of the omelet just before folding.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
For individual omelets, use small pie tins with handles.
Bake until set, then turn each omelet out onto a hot plate 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.

Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Egg + raspberrytop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,778 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).