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Omelette Aux Confi-tubes, or Jam Omelet

A quick omelet cooked with butter and topped with jam before serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and apricot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,458 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Confi-tubes, or Jam Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl until well mixed.

  2. Melt 4 oz. of butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  3. Pour the beaten eggs into the skillet and cook until the bottom is firm and lightly browned.

  4. Spread the jam evenly over the omelet without folding it.

  5. Carefully turn the omelet onto a plate and 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. Butter + apricottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + apricottop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,712 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
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding it together.
Butter
Fat that coats the skillet, preventing sticking and adding richness and browning.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavor, and moisture spread over the cooked omelet.

The step that matters

Cook until the bottom is firm and lightly browned. Eggs set as heat denatures their proteins. If the bottom is not firm before folding or turning, the omelet tears or breaks. Light browning adds flavor, but too much heat makes the eggs tough and rubbery.

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, 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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