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Baa$ Egg Omelet

A light omelet made from separated eggs, with the whites beaten to a froth and folded into the yolk and milk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Baa$ Egg Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Separate the egg whites from the yolks.

  2. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth and the yolks until creamy.

  3. Add milk to the yolks and gently fold in the beaten whites.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a buttered omelet pan and pour in the egg mixture.

  2. Cover with a hot lid and cook for 6 minutes, being careful not to burn.

  3. Place the pan in the top of the oven for a moment.

  4. Lightly draw a knife across the middle, fold the omelet, and serve hot.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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
Whites trapped as foam and yolks set together give the omelet its light, airy structure.
Milk
Adds moisture to the yolks, keeping the cooked omelet tender rather than dry.
Butter
Greases the pan so the omelet releases cleanly and browns lightly on the surface.

The step that matters

Folding the whites into the yolks. Stiff egg whites hold air that gives the omelet its lift. Stirring or beating them in harshly deflates the foam, so the omelet turns out dense instead of fluffy.

“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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