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Sweet Omelets

A sweet omelet made with eggs, butter, sugar, and raspberry or currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,308 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs and mix in the sugar.

  2. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook carefully.

  2. Just before flipping, add the jelly in the center.

  3. Turn the omelet onto a plate and serve.

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.

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. Butter + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, forming its body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the omelet release from the pan and brown lightly.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the savory richness of the eggs and butter.
Raspberry or currant jelly
Adds sweetness and fruity flavor, softening and warming in the center of the omelet.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook carefully.. Eggs set quickly and toughen or brown when the heat is too high. Gentle, moderate heat keeps the omelet tender and evenly cooked, so it stays soft enough to fold and hold the jelly.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Raspberrythe 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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