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The Cure's Omelette

A quick omelette made with eggs, milk, butter, and flaked tuna, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The Cure's Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and milk until well combined.

  2. Heat the butter in a non-stick skillet over medium heat until melted.

  3. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet and cook until the edges begin to set.

  4. Add the flaked tuna, salt, and pepper to one half of the omelette.

  5. Fold the omelette in half and cook for another minute until fully set.

  6. Slide the omelette onto a plate 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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.
Milk
Adds moisture, keeping the eggs tender rather than dry.
Butter
Coats the pan so the omelette releases cleanly and adds richness.
Tuna
Provides the main filling, adding savoury flavour and substance.

The step that matters

Folding and finishing the omelette. Egg proteins set with heat, so cooking too hot or too long makes the omelette rubbery and dry. Cook gently over medium heat until just set, then fold while the centre is still moist.

“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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