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Mutton Omelet

A savory omelet made with chopped mutton, onion, parsley, eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Mutton Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt a lump of butter in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped mutton, onion, and parsley; season with salt and pepper.

  3. Fry for a few minutes until cooked.

Cook the omelet

  1. Beat the eggs with a fork in a bowl, then mix in the cooked mutton mixture.

  2. Add another lump of butter to the same frying pan and heat until hot.

  3. Pour in the omelet mixture.

  4. Cook until lightly browned on both sides, stirring until set.

  5. Shape the omelet into an elongated form.

  6. Transfer to a hot dish and garnish with fried parsley before serving.

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. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 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 to bind the mutton and onion into a firm, sliceable omelet.
Lean mutton
Provides the savory, meaty filling that the eggs bind together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the omelet brown in the pan.
Onion
Adds sweetness and aroma as it softens in the filling.

The step that matters

Cook until lightly browned on both sides, stirring until set. Eggs set through gentle heat; too high a heat toughens and dries them and can scorch the butter, so stir and watch closely until just firm.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, parsley, pepper, butter, egg. 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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