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Bread Omelette

A fried egg and bread crumb mixture cooked in a skillet.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread and eggs

  1. Boil the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs and let it sit for a few minutes.

  3. Beat the eggs in a dish until well mixed.

  4. Add the eggs to the milk and bread mixture, seasoning with pepper and salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Melt the butter in a hot skillet.

  2. Pour the mixture into the skillet and fry slowly.

  3. Cut into square pieces and fry until brown.

  4. Serve immediately.

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

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

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb the hot milk and give the omelette its body and soft, tender texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when fried, giving structure to the omelette.
Sweet milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds moisture to the mixture.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the outside brown in the hot skillet.

The step that matters

Fry slowly before cutting and browning. Cooking over low heat lets the egg and bread mixture set through without scorching the outside before the centre is firm. Browning comes after the mixture has set.

“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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