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Sweetbread Omelet

A savory omelet made with boiled sweetbreads and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Sweetbread Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Soak the sweetbreads well, then boil them for 10 minutes.

  2. Remove the sweetbreads and let them cool, then mince them small and season.

Make the omelette

  1. Beat the eggs until very light, then mix in the chopped sweetbreads.

  2. In a small frying pan, melt the butter over medium heat until it boils.

  3. Pour in the mixture and stir for a short time while frying until it turns a rich brown.

  4. Lift the edge occasionally with a knife to allow butter underneath.

Serve

  1. Serve with gravy.

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 + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when cooked, giving the omelette its structure and body.
Sweetbreads
Provide the main filling, adding a tender, rich texture throughout the omelette.
Butter
Fries the omelette and promotes browning, adding richness and flavour.

The step that matters

Frying until a rich brown. Stirring briefly while frying sets the eggs gently, and the butter must be hot enough to brown the surface without burning. Lifting the edge lets butter reach the underside so it browns evenly.

“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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