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Cottage Cheese Omelette

A fluffy omelette made with eggs, cottage cheese, pimentos, and baking soda, finished in a hot pan and oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cottage cheese work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 239 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately.

  2. Mix the salt, milk, and cottage cheese with the pimentos into the yolks.

  3. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Cook and serve

  1. Melt the fat in a hot frying pan and pour in the egg mixture.

  2. Cook slowly until the eggs set, then place in a 400°F (200°C) oven for a few moments to finish cooking.

  3. Fold the omelette in the center and garnish with parsley.

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. Milk + cottage cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Egg + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  5. Cottage cheese + parsleytop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped whites give the omelette its light structure, and the yolks set to form the body.
Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and a soft, creamy texture to the set eggs.
Milk
Adds moisture and keeps the eggs tender as they cook.
Pimentos
Add mild sweetness and colour to the omelette.

The step that matters

Cook slowly until the eggs set. Eggs turn tough and dry when cooked over high heat. Gentle heat sets the proteins softly, so the omelette stays tender before the short oven finish.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, cottage cheese):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, cottage cheese. 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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