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Cheese Omelet

A baked cheese omelet made with bread crumbs, milk, eggs, butter, cheese, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Cheese Omelet

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk.

  3. Beat the eggs until very light.

  4. Melt the butter.

  5. Dissolve the baking soda in a small amount of hot water.

  6. Butter a baking dish.

Make the batter

  1. Mix the soaked bread crumbs, beaten eggs, melted butter, seasoning, and grated cheese together.

  2. Pour the mixture into the dish.

  3. Sprinkle dry bread crumbs on top.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until delicately brown.

  2. Serve immediately.

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. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs set the mixture into a light, custardy structure when baked.
Bread crumbs
Soaked in milk, they absorb liquid and give the omelet a tender, moist body.
Milk
Provides the liquid that softens the bread crumbs and keeps the custard moist.
Old cheese
Adds rich flavor and fat, and melts into the custard for savoriness.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the top brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until delicately brown. Eggs set as they heat, and over-baking makes the custard dry and rubbery. Pulling it once the top is delicately browned keeps it tender and moist.

“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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