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Sardinian Omelette

A baked omelette made from eggs and a little sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sardinian Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  2. Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the yolks.

  3. Add a little sugar and mix well.

Bake and layer

  1. Bake three or four omelettes at 350°F (175°C) until one side is browned.

  2. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Layer the next omelette on top and repeat until all the mixture is used.

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. 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 trap air for lift, while the yolks add richness and set into a tender structure.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps stabilise the whipped egg whites.

The step that matters

Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the yolks. Whipped whites hold air that makes the omelette light. Stirring or deflating them too vigorously knocks out this air, so the omelette bakes up dense and flat.

“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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