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Omelette with Meat

A fried egg batter with meat pieces cooked in dripping.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Omelette with Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix the egg, milk, flour, and salt in a bowl to create a batter.

Cook the omelette

  1. Melt the dripping in a small frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Once the fat is hot, pour in the batter.

  3. When the batter thickens, add the pieces of meat on top.

  4. Use a knife to loosen the batter from the pan.

  5. Reduce heat and cook until the meat is heated through.

  6. Carefully flip the batter over the meat and cook until golden brown.

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 + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  4. Milk + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,703 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Egg + meattop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Egg
Binds the batter and sets into the firm structure of the omelette.
Flour
Thickens the batter so it holds together rather than running thin in the pan.
Milk
Adds moisture to the batter, keeping the omelette tender as it sets.
Dripping
Heats the pan surface and helps the omelette release and brown.

The step that matters

Flipping the batter over the meat. Flipping too early, before the base has set, can tear the omelette and spill the filling. Waiting until the surface is firm and lightly coloured keeps it intact, while the golden browning comes from the fat and milk sugars on the hot 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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