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Ham Omelette

A quick omelette flavored with grated ham, seasoned with salt and pepper, and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley 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 ↓

Ham Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelette

  1. Whisk the eggs until very light.

  2. Add grated ham to the eggs for flavor.

  3. Heat butter in a pan over medium-high heat.

  4. Pour the egg and ham mixture into the pan and fry until the bottom is brown.

  5. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the omelette.

  6. Fold one half of the omelette over the other.

Serve

  1. Garnish with green parsley before serving.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Ham + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Form the structure of the omelette as they set when cooked.
Grated ham
Adds savory flavor and salty, meaty bites throughout the omelette.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the bottom brown in the hot pan.

The step that matters

Fry the bottom until brown. Cooking over medium-high heat until the underside is golden sets the eggs enough to fold cleanly, while overcooking makes the omelette tough and rubbery because egg proteins tighten when heated too long.

“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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