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Omelette Aux Tomates

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,918 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Tomates

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a Parsley Omelet as directed.

  2. Heat the stewed tomatoes in a pan and season them well.

  3. Once the omelet is cooked, pour the tomatoes across the center.

  4. Fold the omelet and serve.

  5. If using raw tomatoes, peel and chop them, then cook in a frying pan with butter over high heat for about 15 minutes. Season and finish as above.

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. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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