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Potato Omelet, Sweet

A sweet potato omelet made with eggs, milk, butter, sugar, nutmeg, lemon rind, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Potato Omelet, Sweet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Pass the cooked potato through a sieve.

  2. Mix the sieved potato with milk and let it cool.

  3. Add eggs, sugar, nutmeg, lemon rind, and lemon juice to the potato mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook in a frying pan with melted butter, keeping the mixture round or folded as desired.

  2. Serve with a spread of jam or orange marmalade if desired.

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. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Potato + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 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

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a tender, sliceable omelet.
Cooked potato
Adds body and a soft, moist texture to the omelet.
Butter
Fats the pan and browns the outside of the omelet for flavour.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the lemon and nutmeg.
Milk
Adds moisture so the omelet stays soft rather than dry.

The step that matters

Cook in a frying pan with melted butter. Eggs set quickly over direct heat, so high heat or long cooking can scorch the bottom and toughen the eggs before the top sets. Gentle, even heat keeps the omelet tender and evenly coloured.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, sugar, nutmeg, lemon, butter):

  1. Sweet potatofits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, sugar, nutmeg, lemon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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