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Omelette Aux Confitures

An omelette folded over fruit preserves and dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and fruit preserve share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 37 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Confitures

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelet

  1. Beat the eggs with salt and powdered sugar until well combined.

  2. Cook the omelet in a hot skillet until set, then spread the preserves in a row across the center.

  3. Fold the omelet and transfer it to a plate.

Finish and caramelize

  1. Sprinkle with additional powdered sugar.

  2. Heat a kitchen poker until red-hot and hold it diagonally across the top of the omelet in three places for a moment to caramelize the sugar.

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. Sugar + fruit preservetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + fruit preservetop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together26 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding the filling together.
Fruit preserves
Add sweetness, fruity flavor and moisture to the filling.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the eggs and browns into caramel when exposed to intense heat.

The step that matters

Caramelizing the sugar with the poker. Sugar browns into caramel only at high heat, so the poker must be red-hot. Holding it briefly browns the surface, while lingering can scorch the sugar and dry or burn the omelet beneath.

“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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