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Otster Omelet

A fried omelet made with oysters, flour, cream, butter, eggs, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Otster Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the oysters and set aside.

  2. In a bowl, mix the flour with the cream until smooth.

  3. Add the melted butter and beaten eggs to the mixture.

  4. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  5. Stir in the chopped oysters.

Cook

  1. Fry the mixture in a hot skillet and fold like a regular omelet.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Oyster + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Oyster + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

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

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Oysters
Provide the main savoury flavour and tender bite throughout the omelet.
All-purpose flour
Thickens the cream and eggs into a smooth batter that holds together when cooked.
Rich cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the omelet soft rather than dry.
Melted butter
Adds fat for flavour and helps the omelet brown lightly in the skillet.
Eggs
Set when heated to give the omelet its structure and body.

The step that matters

Fry the mixture in a hot skillet and fold like a regular omelet.. Eggs set quickly once they hit the pan. A properly heated skillet sets the surface evenly so the omelet folds cleanly instead of tearing or browning unevenly.

“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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