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Sweet Omelette

A lightly sweetened omelette folded over preserve and dusted with sifted sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sweet Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Whisk the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Add milk, sugar, and salt; beat well together.

Cook the omelette

  1. Heat butter in a frying pan until hot.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and fry carefully, moving it occasionally to prevent sticking.

  3. Once cooked, transfer to a hot plate.

Fill and serve

  1. Heat your choice of preserve and place it in the center of the omelette.

  2. Fold the omelette over the preserve and serve with sifted sugar on top.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette when cooked, holding it together.
Milk
Adds moisture, keeping the omelette softer and more tender as it cooks.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, balancing the savoury eggs and the sweet preserve filling.
Butter
Fat for frying that adds flavour and helps prevent the omelette from sticking.

The step that matters

Fry the egg mixture gently. High heat or no movement makes egg proteins tighten and toughen, and the base can scorch or stick. Moving the mixture keeps curds small and tender and lets uncooked egg flow to the pan.

“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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