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Kidney Omelette

A savory omelette with finely sliced kidney and cherry wine, served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and cherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,336 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Kidney Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  3. Sauté the sliced kidney in the butter until cooked through.

  4. Add the cherry wine and cook until heated.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet and cook until set.

  2. Place the sautéed kidney on one half of the omelette, fold it over, and slide onto a plate.

  3. Serve hot with extra gravy.

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. Pepper + cherrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Cherry + winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + winetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,066 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
Set to form the structure of the omelette as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for cooking the kidney and coats the skillet.
Kidney
Provides the main savory filling, cooked through in butter.
Cherry wine
Adds a light fruity acidity and aroma to the kidney filling.

The step that matters

Sautéing the kidney until cooked through. Kidney that is undercooked can be tough or unsafe, while overcooking makes it rubbery. Slicing it very fine lets heat reach the centre quickly, so it cooks evenly in a short time.

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

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