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Bread Omelet. No. 2

A fried egg mixture with milk-soaked bread crumbs, seasoned with pepper and salt.

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 ↓

Bread Omelet. No. 2

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread milk

  1. Bring the milk to a boil.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs.

  3. Let the mixture sit for a few minutes.

Make the omelet

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl and stir until well mixed.

  2. Add the milk and bread mixture to the eggs.

  3. Season with pepper and salt.

  4. Mix well.

  5. Heat the butter in a frying pan until hot.

  6. Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

  7. Fry slowly until the bottom is brown.

  8. Cut into squares.

  9. Turn to brown the other side.

  10. Serve hot.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk and add body and a soft, tender texture.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and keeps the omelet moist.
Butter
Fat for the pan that helps the bottom brown and adds flavor.

The step that matters

Fry slowly until the bottom is brown. Low, steady heat lets the egg set through without scorching the bottom before the center is cooked. Too much heat browns the outside and leaves the middle runny.

“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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