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Omelet Clux

A lightly seasoned omelet with parsley, bay leaf, chives, and cress.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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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 ↓

Omelet Clux

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the herbs finely and mix them together.

  2. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them well.

  3. Add water while beating to help mix the whites and yolks.

  4. Stir in the chopped herbs while continuing to beat.

  5. Let the mixture stand for a little while.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt butter in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan as soon as the butter is melted.

  3. Shake the pan while the omelet is frying to prevent sticking.

  4. When the omelet is firm, lift it and slip pieces of butter underneath.

  5. Let it brown nicely, then fold the omelet in half.

  6. Once done, slide it onto a hot dish.

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

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

  2. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  5. Chive + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 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
Set into a delicate structure when heated, forming the body of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor and helps the omelet brown in the pan.
Parsley
Contributes fresh, green aroma and flavor to the eggs.
Chives
Adds a mild onion-like aroma and fresh flavor to the eggs.

The step that matters

Shake the pan while the omelet is frying. Constant movement keeps the egg from settling and sticking to the pan, so the omelet stays loose and releases cleanly when folded.

Swap the chive

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

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, egg, pepper, butter. 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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