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Omelet with Crofitons

An omelet made with fried bread cubes, eggs, cream, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Omelet with Crofitons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Fry the bread cubes in butter until browned and crisp.

Make the omelet

  1. Beat the eggs slightly in a bowl.

  2. Add cream, salt, and pepper to the eggs.

  3. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a hot omelet pan until browned.

  4. Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

  5. Cook the omelet like a French omelet.

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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the body of the omelet once heated.
Bread
Adds crisp, browned texture contrasting with the soft egg.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the eggs tender.
Butter
Adds fat for frying and browning the bread and omelet.

The step that matters

Pouring the egg mixture into the hot butter. Eggs cook quickly in hot fat, so the pan must be hot enough to set them gently without over-browning. Too cool and the omelet turns watery; too hot and it toughens or burns.

“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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