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Omelet Soufflé

A sweet soufflé omelet made with eggs, butter, sugar, and rose or orange flower water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Omelet Soufflé

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ingredients

  1. Melt the butter in a 5‑inch diameter pan.

  2. In another pan, boil the sugar and orange flower water until reduced to half.

Make and cook the omelet

  1. Beat the syrup with the egg yolks, then gently fold in the stiff egg whites.

  2. Pour the mixture into the pan and stir for a few seconds until the bottom is set.

  3. Place the pan in a slow oven until the top is a delicate fawn color, then remove and turn the omelet out onto a dish.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + rosetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Butter + rosetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped whites trap air for lift, while yolks add richness and body to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and, reduced to a syrup, adds body to the yolks.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor and helps the omelet brown lightly in the pan.
Orange flower water
Adds a floral aroma that flavors the syrup and the omelet.

The step that matters

Folding in the stiff egg whites. Stiff whites hold air bubbles that make the omelet rise. Folding gently keeps those bubbles intact, while stirring or beating them down would make the omelet flat and dense.

“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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