Name: Omelette De Pommes
Ingredients: apples; cloves; lemon peel; thyme; eggs; cream; sugar; cinnamon; pastry for tart

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 Pommes

Ingredients

Directions

Peel and core the apples, then slice them.
Stew the apple slices with a few cloves, lemon peel, and a little thyme.
In a bowl, prepare a batter by mixing eggs, cream, sugar, and cinnamon.
Combine the stewed apples with the batter.
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.

Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,973 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,598 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
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

Swap the apple

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

Orangefits better
Vanillafits better
Limefits better
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.