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Cheese Omelet

A quick egg dish with Parmesan cheese, cream, and clarified butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cheese Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Whisk the eggs in a bowl until well combined.

  2. Add the grated cheese, cream, salt, and pepper to the eggs and mix well.

Cook the omelet

  1. Heat the clarified butter in an omelet pan until hot.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir gently until the eggs begin to set.

  3. Fold the omelet in half or fold the sides towards the middle to form a cushion shape.

  4. Allow the omelet to brown slightly, then carefully turn it onto a hot dish.

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

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

  2. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Parmesan cheese + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Parmesan cheese + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,566 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a tender structure that forms the body of the omelet.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty flavor and some richness as it melts into the eggs.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture that keeps the eggs soft and tender rather than dry.
Clarified butter
Cooks the eggs without browning milk solids and adds rich flavor.

The step that matters

Stir gently until the eggs begin to set. Eggs cook quickly; stirring gently keeps curds small and tender, while high heat or vigorous stirring makes them tough and dry.

“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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