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Omelette with Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,778 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Omelette with Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake an omelette, omitting the lemon juice.

  2. Spread raspberry or apple jelly over the omelette.

  3. Double the omelette over and serve hot.

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. Egg + raspberrytop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

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