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Mushroom Omelet

A savory omelet with sautéed mushrooms and a thickened cream mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Mushroom Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mushroom filling

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped mushrooms, salt, pepper, and cream or milk.

  3. If needed, dissolve the flour in a little milk or water and stir in to thicken.

  4. Boil for 10 minutes, then set aside until the omelet is ready.

Finish and serve

  1. Prepare a plain omelet as usual.

  2. Just before folding the omelet, add the mushroom mixture to the center and serve hot.

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Button mushrooms
Provide the main filling, releasing moisture and savory flavor as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and carries flavor while the mushrooms cook in the saucepan.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and a creamy body to the mushroom filling.
Flour
Thickens the liquid so the mushroom mixture holds together inside the omelet.

The step that matters

Thickening with flour. Flour must be dissolved in a little liquid before stirring in, otherwise it forms lumps and does not thicken the mixture evenly. Boiling then activates its starch so the filling becomes cohesive rather than watery.

“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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