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Egg Timbale with Mushrooms

A baked egg custard topped with sautéed mushrooms and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Egg Timbale with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the timbale

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F (165°C).

  2. Beat the yolks of the eggs in a bowl, then mix in the milk, Durkee’s Salad Dressing, onion juice, and chopped parsley.

  3. Pour the mixture into a greased mold and bake for 45 minutes.

Make the mushroom sauce

  1. Clean and cook the mushrooms in 1 cup of water until tender.

  2. In a pan, brown the flour in butter, then add the mushroom water and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.

  3. Add the cooked mushrooms to the sauce and serve over the timbale, garnished with parsley.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Parsley + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg yolks and whites set into a firm, sliceable custard structure when baked.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the baked custard, keeping it tender.
Flour
Browned in butter and thickened with mushroom water to form the sauce.
Butter
Fat that is browned with the flour, adding nutty flavor to the sauce.
Mushrooms
Provide earthy flavor and a tender, meaty texture to the sauce.

The step that matters

Browning the flour in butter. Cooking the flour in fat until it turns golden removes raw starch taste and builds flavor, while stirring constantly prevents scorching and lumps before the liquid is added.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, parsley, flour, butter, mushroom):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, parsley, flour, butter, mushroom. 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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