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Peencii Bean Omelet

A savory omelet with grated Parmesan cheese, beans, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,163 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peencii Bean Omelet

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Beat the eggs well in a bowl.

  2. Add the cheese, pepper, and salt, and mix together.

  3. Incorporate the well-boiled, small-cut beans.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt the butter in an omelet pan.

  2. Fry the omelet in the usual way until cooked through.

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.

Explore the science

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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,733 recipes

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

  3. Parmesan cheese + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Parmesan cheese + beanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together219 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the structure that sets into the body of the omelet as it cooks.
Parmesan cheese
Adds salty, savoury flavour and a little browning on the surface of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour, and helps keep the omelet from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Fry the omelet until cooked through. Egg proteins set and toughen when overheated, so moderate heat and careful timing keep the omelet tender rather than rubbery or dry.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Pecansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, parmesan cheese, butter, pepper. 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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