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Mushroom Omelets

A savory omelet with stewed mushrooms and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Mushroom Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the mushrooms into quarters.

  2. Stew the mushrooms gently in cream for 15 minutes.

  3. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper.

Make and fold the omelet

  1. Beat the eggs lightly in a bowl and add the cream, salt, and pepper to the eggs.

  2. Heat a granite pie pan until very hot.

  3. Melt the butter in the pan.

  4. Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

  5. Lift the edges lightly with a fork while thickening, but do not stir.

  6. Once the egg is firm, spread the mushroom mixture over half of the omelet.

  7. Fold the other half over and serve.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a firm structure that holds the folded omelet together.
Mushrooms
Provide the savory filling, softened by gentle stewing in cream.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the eggs tender and the filling soft.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor and helps keep the omelet from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Lift the edges without stirring. Egg proteins set as they heat, forming a tender curd. Stirring breaks up forming curds and makes the omelet grainy, while gently lifting the edges lets liquid egg flow underneath to cook evenly.

“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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