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Bread Omelet

A savory omelet made with bread crumbs soaked in milk and folded into beaten eggs, then fried in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Bread Omelet

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 ↓

Bread Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan until boiling.

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in the hot milk.

  3. In a bowl, stir the eggs thoroughly without beating them.

  4. Mix the soaked bread crumbs into the eggs.

Cook the omelette

  1. Melt butter in a skillet and pour in half of the mixture.

  2. Cook until set, then repeat with the remaining mixture to make a second layer.

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 + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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 omelette as they cook, holding the layers together.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk and add body and softness to the set eggs.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds moisture so the omelette stays tender.

The step that matters

Cook until set, then repeat with the remaining mixture to make a second layer.. Cooking over moderate heat lets the egg set gently into a tender layer. High heat or overcooking makes eggs tough and dry, so each layer should be cooked just until set before adding the next.

“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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