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Pepper Omelet

A savory omelet made with eggs, peppers, and sea salt, cooked in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pepper Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a deep bowl, place the yolks of the eggs and season with salt.

  2. Beat the yolks well with an egg beater.

  3. Fold the beaten egg whites into the yolks.

  4. Add the finely chopped peppers and mix gently.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a buttered pan on the stove and pour in the egg mixture.

  2. Cook for 5 minutes, then fold the omelet over.

  3. Cook for an additional 3 minutes and serve immediately on a hot dish.

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.

  1. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when heated, giving the omelet its structure and tender body.
Finely chopped peppers
Add moisture, sweetness and colour to the filling as they cook.
Butter
Greases the pan to prevent sticking and adds richness and flavour.

The step that matters

Cook for 5 minutes, then fold the omelet over. Egg proteins set from the bottom up in the hot pan. Folding too early leaves the centre runny and likely to break, while waiting too long makes the eggs dry and rubbery.

“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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