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Oyster Omelet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Oyster Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the oysters and remove the gills.

  2. Heat butter in a pan.

  3. Dry the oysters thoroughly and fry them until browned.

  4. Remove the oysters and add sliced onion and flour to the pan, frying until browned.

  5. Add stock, bouquet garni, cloves, mace, salt, and pepper, stirring until boiling.

  6. Return the oysters to the pan, cover, and simmer gently for 2 to 3 hours.

  7. Arrange the oysters on a hot dish, season the sauce to taste, add lemon juice, and strain over the oysters.

  8. Garnish with croutons of fried bread or cooked turnip and carrot cut into dice or julienne strips.

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

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

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, thyme, clove, onion, lemon, pepper, butter):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, thyme, clove, onion, lemon, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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