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Spinach Omelet

A baked omelet made with spinach, beetroot, parsley, leeks, lemon thyme, flour, eggs, milk, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Spinach Omelet

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.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Chop the spinach, beetroot, parsley, leeks, and lemon thyme.

  3. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.

Make the batter

  1. Gradually add the flour, milk, and beaten eggs to the mixture.

  2. Stir in the melted butter until well combined.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into an enamel pie dish.

  2. Bake for 20 minutes.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Spinach + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Beetroot + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a firm, sliceable omelet as they cook.
Flour
Thickens the egg and milk mixture so it holds together rather than running.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the eggs for a tender, custard-like texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a softer texture and rounder flavor.
Spinach
Supplies the main leafy body and moisture, softening as it bakes into the eggs.

“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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