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Omelet with Mushrooms

A creamy mushroom omelet made with eggs, butter, flour, cream, and spices.

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

Omelet with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mushroom filling

  1. Boil the cream in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in the flour and butter until combined.

  3. Add the salt, cayenne pepper, and minced mushrooms to the mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl for about 8 strokes.

  2. Pour the eggs into a hot buttered skillet and partially cook.

  3. Add the mushroom mixture to the eggs and gently fold.

  4. Serve the omelet on a hot platter.

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

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding the filling together.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft and creamy.
Mushrooms
Provide earthy flavor and moisture to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the eggs release from the hot skillet.
Flour
Thickens the cream with the butter, giving the filling body.

The step that matters

Partially cook the eggs before folding. Eggs set quickly when heated, so pulling them off the heat while still slightly moist lets the filling fold in gently without overcooking the omelet into a dry, rubbery texture.

“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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