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Green Corn Omelette

A savory omelette made with corn pulp, eggs, cream, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Green Corn Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. Score the corn lengthwise.

  2. Scrape out the pulp.

Make the omelette

  1. In a bowl, mix the corn pulp with the beaten eggs, cream, salt, and pepper.

  2. Heat a frying pan.

  3. Add the butter, shaking until the bottom is greased.

  4. Pour the mixture into the pan.

  5. Shake and tilt until evenly cooked.

  6. Roll the omelette.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately on a heated platter.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  3. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to bind the corn pulp into a tender, cohesive omelette.
Corn
Provides sweetness and bulk, with juicy texture from the pulp.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the set eggs.
Butter
Greases the pan so the omelette releases and adds richness.

The step that matters

Shake and tilt until evenly cooked. Eggs set quickly where they touch the hot pan. Shaking and tilting keeps the liquid moving so it cooks evenly without browning or becoming rubbery in spots.

“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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