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Lepiota Procera Omelette

A baked omelette made with fresh mushrooms, eggs, butter, pepper, salt, and milk.

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

Lepiota Procera Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven.

  2. Mince the fresh agarics and season with pepper and salt.

  3. Add some butter to the minced agarics and place them in the oven.

Make the omelette

  1. Whisk the whites and yolks of the eggs together until well combined.

  2. In a frying pan, heat 1 ounce of butter until it begins to brown.

  3. Beat the eggs again, then add the minced agarics and a little milk.

  4. Pour the egg mixture into the hot butter and stir gently.

  5. Fry on one side for 5 to 6 minutes until set.

  6. Drain excess fat, roll up the omelette, and serve immediately on a hot 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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pepper + milktop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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 omelette and give it a tender, custardy body.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavour, and browns to a nutty aroma in the pan.
Fresh agarics
Contribute moisture and an earthy mushroom flavour to the filling.
Milk
Adds a little moisture to the eggs, keeping the omelette soft.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the hot butter and stir gently. Eggs set quickly in hot fat. Gentle stirring keeps the curds soft and tender, while overheating or vigorous stirring makes the omelette tough 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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