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Apricot Omelet

A light omelet folded with apricot jam and dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and apricot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,458 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Apricot Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Beat the egg whites and yolks together with a pinch of salt.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt the butter in an omelet pan.

  2. Pour the eggs into the pan as soon as the butter is melted.

  3. Fold the omelet.

  4. Add apricot jam inside the folded omelet.

Finish and serve

  1. Turn the omelet onto a dish.

  2. Cover with powdered sugar.

  3. Glaze with a salamander.

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 + apricottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

  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

Egg whites
Whipped to trap air, giving the omelet its light, airy structure.
Egg yolks
Add richness and fat, and help the omelet set tender rather than dry.
Butter
Coats the pan so the eggs release cleanly and adds a rich, browned flavor.
Apricot jam
Adds sweetness and fruity acidity inside the folded omelet.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the surface and helps form a light caramelized glaze under the salamander.

The step that matters

Pour the eggs as soon as the butter melts. Eggs poured into butter that is still cool will sit and soak in grease, while butter that is too hot browns and toughens them. Pouring at the moment the butter is melted lets the eggs set quickly and evenly into a tender omelet.

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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