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Make Three Very Thin Omelets

Thin omelet rolls coated with grated bread and fried parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Make Three Very Thin Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelets

  1. Beat 3 eggs in a bowl and season with parsley, green onions, salt, and pepper.

  2. Cook the mixture in a skillet to make a thin omelet.

  3. Repeat for two more omelets.

  4. Spread each omelet flat on a surface and roll them tightly.

  5. Cut each rolled omelet into two pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each piece into a beaten egg.

  2. Coat with grated bread.

  3. Fry in oil or butter until golden brown.

  4. Serve garnished with fried parsley.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into thin omelets that hold the roll together and form the filling and the egg coating.
Bread
Grated bread forms a crisp, golden, browned crust when fried.
Green onions
Add mild aromatic flavor to the egg filling.
Parsley
Adds fresh herbal aroma to the omelet filling.

The step that matters

Rolling the thin omelets. If the omelets are thick or cooked too long, they become stiff and crack when rolled. Thin, just-set omelets bend without tearing, keeping the rolls intact through coating and frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, parsley, pepper, bread, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, parsley, pepper, bread, 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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