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Omelette a LA Bonne Femme

A French omelette with bacon, boiled potato, and bread, served hot with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Omelette a LA Bonne Femme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them for about 5 minutes.

  2. Add the parsley, chives, salt, and pepper to the eggs.

  3. Cut the bacon, potato, and roll into small pieces.

Cook the omelette

  1. Melt the butter in a frying pan and cook the bacon until slightly brown.

  2. Add the potato and roll to the pan and cook for a few minutes.

  3. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir with a fork.

  4. Cook the omelette over the heat for about 2 minutes.

  5. Serve very hot with a little tomato 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.

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

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

  2. Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  5. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs set into the omelette's structure as they cook.
Bacon
Browns in the butter, adding savoury flavour and fat to the dish.
Potato
Adds body and bulk, so the omelette is more filling.
Butter
Fat for frying that keeps the eggs from sticking and adds richness.
Breakfast roll
Adds bulk and a soft texture to the omelette.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg mixture. Eggs turn rubbery if cooked too hot or too long. Cooking gently over moderate heat, while stirring lightly, keeps the omelette tender and moist.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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