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Sweet Omelet

A lightly sweetened omelet folded with whipped egg whites, cooked in butter, topped with jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs.

  2. Beat the yolks with half the sugar.

  3. Place the egg whites in a bowl with a little sugar and whip until stiff.

  4. Gently fold the whipped egg whites into the yolk mixture.

Cook the omelette

  1. Melt the butter in a small frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

  3. Cook for about 3 minutes.

  4. Hold the pan in front of the heat for 1-2 minutes to brown the top.

Serve

  1. Transfer the jam to a hot plate and place the omelet on top.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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
Whipped whites give the omelette its light, airy structure, while yolks add richness and set into a tender body.
Butter
Melts in the pan to coat the surface, adding fat that helps the omelette brown and release cleanly.
Sugar
Sweetens the omelette and helps stabilise the whipped egg whites.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour as a base beneath the omelette.

The step that matters

Folding the whipped whites into the yolks. Whipped egg whites hold air in a fragile foam. Folding gently keeps that air in the mixture, so the omelette stays light; stirring or beating deflates it and makes the result dense.

“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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