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Make Three Very Thin Omelets

Thin omelets rolled, bread-coated, and fried, served with fried parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Make Three Very Thin Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelets

  1. In a bowl, beat 3 eggs and season with parsley, green onions, salt, and pepper.

  2. Cook the omelets in a skillet until done, then lay them flat on a saucepan cover.

  3. Roll each omelet tightly and cut into two pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each piece into a beaten egg and coat with grated bread.

  2. Fry in butter until golden brown.

  3. Serve garnished with fried parsley.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the filling and set into tender omelet layers that hold the roll together.
Bread
Grated bread forms a crisp, golden coating when fried in butter.
Butter
Fat for frying that browns the coating and adds rich flavor.

The step that matters

Rolling and cutting the cooked omelets. Omelets must be fully set but still pliable; if overcooked they crack when rolled. Rolling tightly keeps the layers together so the pieces hold their shape through the coating and frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

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