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Green Corn Omelet

A savory omelet made with fresh corn kernels, eggs, milk, butter, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Green Corn Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. Remove the kernels from the corn by scoring lengthwise and pressing out the pulp with the back of a knife.

  2. In a bowl, mix the corn pulp with the beaten eggs, milk, salt, and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a frying pan until very hot and add the butter.

  2. Once the butter is melted, pour in the corn mixture.

  3. Cook carefully, folding the omelet as soon as it sets, and serve on a hot platter.

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

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

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  4. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Egg + buttertop 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

Sweet corn
Provides sweetness and moisture, with starch that thickens the omelet's texture.
Eggs
Set when heated to form the structure that holds the omelet together.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the eggs, keeping the omelet tender.
Butter
Adds fat for flavor and helps keep the omelet from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Cook carefully, folding as soon as it sets. Eggs set quickly over high heat, and cooking too long makes them dry and tough. Folding at the first firm set keeps the omelet tender and moist inside.

“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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