Name: Ham Omelet
Ingredients: eggs; ham; baked tomatoes

Why it works: Egg and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,526 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Ham Omelet

Ingredients

eggs
ham
baked tomatoes

Directions

Prepare the ham omelet according to your preferred recipe.
Select uniform-sized tomatoes and bake them.
Garnish the omelet with the baked tomatoes.
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.

Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,526 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ham + tomatotop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together348 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Egg + tomatotop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,890 recipes

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