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Omelette De Pohhes

A baked apple tart with a pastry crust and a custard-like filling of eggs, cream, sugar, and cinnamon, flavored with cloves, lemon peel, and thyme.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Omelette De Pohhes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel and core the apples, then slice them.

  2. Stew the apple slices with a few cloves, lemon peel, and a little thyme.

  3. In a bowl, prepare a batter by mixing eggs, cream, sugar, and cinnamon.

  4. Combine the stewed apples with the batter.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a tart pan lined with pastry and bake until set.

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.

Explore the science

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Thyme + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main fruit body and tart flavor that the custard surrounds.
Eggs
Set the batter into a firm, sliceable custard when baked.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the custard a softer texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly in the oven.
Tart pastry
Forms the crust that holds the filling in its shape while baking.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs thicken as their proteins coagulate with heat. Underbaking leaves a runny filling, while overbaking can make the custard grainy and weep liquid.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, lemon, thyme, egg, cream, sugar, cinnamon):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, lemon, thyme, egg, cream, sugar, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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