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Omelet with Herbs

A fried egg omelet flavored with onions, celery, parsley, and sweet marjoram.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,979 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Omelet with Herbs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the celery, onions, parsley, and sweet marjoram.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl and mix in the chopped ingredients.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat boiling lard in a frying pan.

  2. Pour the mixture into the pan and fry until set.

  3. When serving, turn the omelet onto the dish without flipping it in the pan.

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 + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  3. Celery + marjoramtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together615 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 body of the omelet as they cook.
Onions
Add sweetness and savory aroma when cooked into the eggs.
Parsley
Adds fresh, green aroma to the omelet.
Sweet marjoram
Adds a warm, aromatic herbal flavor.

The step that matters

Turning the omelet onto the dish. Egg proteins set firmly as they cook, but a half-set omelet can tear or break when moved. Letting it set fully in the pan and sliding it out onto the dish, rather than flipping it, helps keep it intact.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, parsley, marjoram, egg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, parsley, marjoram, egg. 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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