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Omelet with Strawberries

A sweet omelet folded around strawberries, topped with vanilla sugar and strawberry purée.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 105 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Omelet with Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut the strawberries into quarters and mix with sugar, orange zest, and rum in a bowl.

  2. Pass the remaining strawberries through a sieve to make a purée and sweeten it with orange sugar; set on ice.

Make and serve the omelette

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with powdered sugar and cream for a few seconds.

  2. Melt the butter in a frying pan, then add the egg mixture and thicken the omelet with a spoon.

  3. Place the cut strawberries in the center of the omelet, fold the sides, and turn it onto a dish.

  4. Sift sugar with vanilla over the omelet, glaze it, and pour the strawberry purée around it.

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.

Explore the science

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. Rum + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Orange + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Pine + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 gives the omelette its body.
Butter
Fats the pan so the eggs release cleanly and add richness.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the egg mixture.
Strawberries
Provide fresh fruit flavor, sweetness and juiciness inside the omelette.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit, purée and glaze and helps the top caramelise lightly.

The step that matters

Thickening the omelette in the pan. Eggs cook quickly and turn rubbery if overheated. Keeping the heat moderate and stirring gently with a spoon yields a soft, creamy set rather than a dry, tough one.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, sugar, rum, strawberry, egg, cream, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, sugar, rum, strawberry, egg, cream, 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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