Name: Ham Omelet
Ingredients: 3 ounces lean cooked ham; 2 tablespoons half-glaze; Brown Sauce (for serving)

Why it works: Ham and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,314 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Ham Omelet

Ingredients

3 ounces lean cooked ham
2 tablespoons half-glaze
Brown Sauce (for serving)

Directions

Prepare the ham

Chop the ham into small pieces.
Stew the ham in half-glaze for a few minutes.

Cook the omelet

Fry the ham in an omelet pan.
Pour the omelet mixture into the pan, placing the ham on one side.
Fold the omelet over and transfer it to a dish.

Serve

Serve with brown sauce.

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.

Ham + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,314 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Lean cooked ham: Adds savory, meaty flavor and a chewy bite to the omelet.
Half-glaze: Adds concentrated savory flavor, richness and a glossy finish to the ham.

“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.