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Potato Omelet

A savory omelet made with boiled potatoes, eggs, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Potato Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potato base

  1. Boil the potatoes until mealy, then press them through a sieve while hot.

  2. In a bowl, mix the sieved potatoes with the beaten yolks of the eggs.

  3. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

Cook the omelet

  1. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

  2. Cook the omelet in a skillet, adding chopped parsley just before folding it over.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Mashed and sieved, they form the soft, moist body of the omelet.
Eggs
Yolks bind the potato mixture, and whipped whites add lift and a light texture.
Lemon juice
Adds a small amount of acidity that brightens the flavor of the egg and potato.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites gently. Whites hold air that gives the omelet lift. Stirring or pressing them hard knocks that air out, leaving the omelet dense and flat.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, lemon, parsley. 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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