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Omelette Aux Pommes De Terre

A French omelette with boiled potatoes, parsley, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Pommes De Terre

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil the potatoes with their skins on, then let them cool before peeling.

  2. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying pan.

  3. Add the chopped potatoes and cook until nicely browned, using a flat knife to turn them.

  4. Add parsley, pepper, and salt, then keep the mixture warm.

Make the omelette

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with milk.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the frying pan and cook until slightly set.

  3. Sprinkle the potato mixture over the eggs and fold the omelet.

  4. Serve immediately; do not let the omelet stand.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the structure of the omelette as they cook.
Potatoes
Provide the bulk and browned, tender texture of the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the potatoes brown in the pan.
Milk
Adds moisture that keeps the beaten eggs soft and tender.

The step that matters

Serve immediately; do not let the omelet stand. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat and firm up, and they lose moisture as they sit, so the omelette becomes dry and rubbery if it waits.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, egg, parsley, pepper, milk):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, egg, parsley, pepper, milk. 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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