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Cheese Omelette

A fried egg mixture with Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, cream, and butter, finished under a salamander.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Beat the eggs well.

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in cream, then add to the eggs and mix well.

Cook

  1. Melt the butter in a frying pan.

  2. Pour the mixture into the pan and fry until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately, covering with grated Parmesan and passing a hot salamander over 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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Parmesan cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 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 the structure of the omelette as they cook, holding it together.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the cream and add body, giving a softer, more tender texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the omelette tender rather than dry.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savoury, salty flavour and browns under the salamander for a golden top.
Butter
Fat for the pan that carries flavour and helps the surface brown.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. Cook over moderate heat so the eggs set gently and the underside browns without burning. High heat toughens egg proteins and scorches the surface before the centre sets.

“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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