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Omelette with Mushrooms

A simple omelette flavored with raw and cooked mushrooms, finished with meat juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Omelette with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the raw mushrooms.

  2. Toss the minced mushrooms in butter in an omelette pan.

Make and serve the omelette

  1. Add the eggs and cook to make the omelette.

  2. Transfer the omelette to a dish.

  3. Lay the cooked mushrooms on top and surround with meat juice.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Mushroom + meattop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Butter + meattop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Mushroom + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,987 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raw mushrooms
Minced and cooked in butter, they release moisture and add savory, earthy flavor to the filling.
Butter
Carries the mushrooms in the pan and adds richness and browning flavor.
Eggs
Set when cooked to form the structure of the omelette.
Meat juice
Surrounds the dish, adding savory, meaty flavor.

The step that matters

Add the eggs and cook to make the omelette. Eggs set quickly when heat is high, so cooking gently keeps the omelette tender rather than tough, dry, or rubbery.

“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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