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Bread Omelet

A savory omelet made with bread crumbs soaked in milk and mixed with eggs, then cooked in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Bread Omelet

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in milk until soft.

  2. Beat the eggs until light and fluffy.

  3. Heat a skillet and add the butter.

  4. Mix the soaked bread crumbs with the beaten eggs.

Cook

  1. Pour the mixture into the skillet.

  2. Cook until the eggs are set, then divide in the middle.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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 main structure of the omelette as they cook.
Bread crumbs
Soak up milk and add softness and body to the egg mixture.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds moisture to the eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the omelette from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Cook until the eggs are set, then divide in the middle. Eggs turn firm and rubbery when overcooked. Removing the pan from heat once the eggs are just set keeps the omelette tender and moist.

“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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