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Mushroom Omelet

A savory omelet folded around sautéed mushrooms, butter, cream, and flour for thickness.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Mushroom Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mushroom filling

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped mushrooms, salt, and pepper; cook for 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in the cream or milk.

  4. Dissolve the flour in a little milk or water and add to the mixture to thicken if needed.

Assemble and serve

  1. Prepare a plain omelet as usual.

  2. Just before folding the omelet, add the mushroom mixture to the center 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Button mushrooms
Provide the main filling, softening and releasing moisture as they cook in butter.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the mushrooms brown lightly as they cook.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, turning the filling creamy rather than dry.
Flour
Thickens the creamy mushroom mixture so it clings to the omelet instead of running.

The step that matters

Thickening the mushroom mixture. Flour mixed into liquid must be dissolved fully first, or it forms lumps. Adding it only if needed prevents a runny or overly thick filling.

“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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