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Gluten Omelette

A gluten-containing omelette with veal, ham, parsley, thyme, and butter.

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

Gluten Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl.

  2. Add cream, half the butter in pieces, gluten, parsley, thyme, minced veal and ham, pepper, and salt. Mix well.

Cook the omelette

  1. Melt the remaining butter in a frying pan.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir until the eggs begin to set.

  3. Shape the omelette into an oval and let it cook until lightly browned on one side.

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

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

  3. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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 omelette as they cook.
Gluten
Adds body and helps hold the omelette together while it sets.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the omelette brown in the pan.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the egg mixture.

The step that matters

Stirring until the eggs begin to set. Stirring while the eggs are still liquid keeps curds small and the texture tender. Once the base begins to set, stop stirring and let it cook so the bottom can brown.

Swap the thyme

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

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Tarragonfits about as well
  3. Thymethe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

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