Name: A Sweet Omelette
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 2 teaspoons pounded loaf-sugar; 1 tablespoon jam; ½ ounce butter

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 ↓

A Sweet Omelette

Ingredients

3 eggs
2 teaspoons pounded loaf-sugar
1 tablespoon jam
½ ounce butter

Directions

Beat the eggs in a bowl.
Mix in the pounded loaf-sugar.
Just before the omelette is ready, spread the jam evenly over it.
Fold the omelette over the jam.
Transfer to a hot dish and sprinkle with more pounded loaf-sugar.

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.

Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

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