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Bread Omelet

A savory dish made by baking bread soaked in liquid with onion, parsley, egg, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Bread Omelet

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Bread Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soften the hard bread in hot water or milk, or in cold water and crumble it.

  2. In a bowl, combine the softened bread, chopped onion, parsley, egg, salt, and pepper.

  3. Heat bits of suet or beef fat in a frying pan or square baking pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the pan, cover, and bake for five minutes.

  2. Uncover and brown the top, then cut into pieces and serve with meat or gravy.

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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Explore the science

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard bread
Softened bread forms the body of the omelet and holds the mixture together.
Egg
Egg binds the mixture and sets it into a firm, sliceable form when baked.
Hot water or milk
Moisture softens the bread so it blends evenly with the other ingredients.
Suet or beef fat
Fat for frying adds richness and helps the top brown in the pan.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, parsley, egg, pepper, beef):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, parsley, egg, pepper, beef. 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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