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Omelet with Jelly

A light omelet folded over a spoonful of jelly 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: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Omelet with Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Heat a frying pan over medium heat and add the butter.

  2. In a bowl, beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar.

  3. In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  4. Gently mix the egg whites with the yolk mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the hot pan.

  2. As the omelet cooks, lift the cooked edges with a fork and let the uncooked part flow to the bottom.

  3. When cooked to your liking, place the jelly in the center, fold the omelet, and turn it out onto a warm plate.

  4. Dust with powdered sugar and serve.

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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. 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
Whipped whites give the omelet its light, airy structure, while yolks add richness.
Butter
Fat in the hot pan adds flavor and helps keep the omelet from sticking.
Jelly
Melts slightly from the warmth inside the fold, adding sweetness and fruity flavor.
Sugar
Sweetens the yolk mixture and adds a little browning at the edges.

The step that matters

Gently mix the egg whites with the yolk mixture. Folding rather than stirring keeps the air bubbles in the whipped whites. Overmixing deflates them, leaving a dense, flat omelet.

“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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