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Sweet Omelet

A sweet omelet made with eggs, cream, sugar, jam, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Separate the egg whites and yolks into two bowls.

  2. Beat the yolks with cream and caster sugar.

  3. Whip the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold them into the yolk mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat butter in a pan and pour in the mixture, frying until golden.

  2. Spread jam over the top.

  3. Fold the omelet. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Serve.

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

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped whites give the omelette its light, airy structure, while the yolks enrich it and help it set.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the yolk mixture soft and tender as it cooks.
Caster sugar
Sweetens the omelette and helps the surface brown lightly as it fries.
Butter
Fat for frying that browns the outside and adds a rich flavour.

The step that matters

Folding the whipped egg whites into the yolk mixture. Whites hold air only when whipped to stiff peaks; overmixing deflates them, and the omelette loses its lift and becomes dense. Fold gently to keep the air in.

“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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