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Quaker Omelet

A fluffy omelet made with eggs, corn starch, milk, salt, and butter, cooked in a covered pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Quaker Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat a good-sized omelet pan or frypan with a lid.

  2. Beat the yolks of the eggs, salt, and corn starch together.

  3. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth and fold into the yolk mixture.

  4. Add the milk and mix well.

  5. Butter the hot pan with the tablespoon of butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the pan and cover with the lid.

  2. Cook on low heat for about 7 minutes until browned.

  3. Fold the omelet and serve on a hot dish.

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

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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
Whites trapped as foam and yolks set the omelet's structure as it cooks.
Corn starch
Thickens the egg mixture and helps keep the omelet tender rather than rubbery.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, diluting the egg so the omelet stays light.
Butter
Greases the hot pan to prevent sticking and adds richness and browning.

The step that matters

Fold the egg whites into the yolk mixture. Whites must be beaten to a stiff froth and folded gently so the air is kept. That trapped air gives the omelet its lift; overmixing deflates it and leaves a dense result.

“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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