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Omelet with Rum

A quick omelet flavored with sugar, salt, and rum, ignited before serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and rum are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,908 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Omelet with Rum

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with sugar and salt.

  2. Cook the omelet in a hot skillet until set.

  3. Sprinkle sugar over the top of the omelet.

Flambé and serve

  1. Pour rum over the omelet.

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

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

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + rumtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,589 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the omelet's structure and give it a tender, custard-like texture when cooked.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the savory eggs and helps the top brown slightly.
Rum
Adds aroma and flavor, and its alcohol vapor ignites to create the flambé.

The step that matters

Carefully ignite the rum. Flame comes from alcohol vapor above the liquid, so the rum can flare up quickly. Igniting it away from the burner, with the pan and hands clear, prevents the flame from spreading or burning the cook.

“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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