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Eggs and Mushrooms

A baked dish of eggs and mushrooms with butter, pepper, salt, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Eggs and Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Slice the canned mushrooms in half.

  2. Stew the mushrooms in a little butter with pepper, salt, and a small amount of water for 10 minutes.

  3. Drain the mushrooms and place them in a pie dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Break enough eggs to cover the mushrooms.

  2. Season with pepper and salt, and scatter bits of butter on top.

  3. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and bake at 350°F (175°C) until the eggs are set.

  4. Serve in the dish.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a custard-like layer that holds the dish together when baked.
Mushrooms
Provide the main body, moisture and savoury flavour under the eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the mushrooms and browns the top.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust on top during baking.

The step that matters

Bake until the eggs are set. Egg proteins coagulate with heat, so the whites and yolks firm up at a set point. Removing the dish too early leaves them runny, while overbaking makes them rubbery and dry.

“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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