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Rum Omelette

A sweet omelette flavored with rum, cooked in butter and dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,007 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rum Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs thoroughly with the sugar.

  2. Add the Jamaica rum to the egg mixture.

  3. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

Cook and roll

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the melted butter.

  2. Stir and cook until done.

  3. Roll the omelette and place it on a dish.

Finish and serve

  1. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

  2. Serve with a glass of Jamaica rum on the side.

  3. Pour rum on each side of the dish, light it, and serve when the alcohol has almost burned out.

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. Rum + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,007 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Sugar + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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 when cooked, giving the omelette its structure.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps sweeten the eggs before cooking.
Jamaica rum
Adds aroma and flavour, and is flamed for the finish.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and cooks the omelette in a thin layer.

The step that matters

Lighting the rum. Alcohol vapour, not the liquid itself, ignites above the dish. Flaming burns off only part of the alcohol, so letting the flame die down before serving keeps the rum's flavour without a harsh burn.

“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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