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Battered Eggs with Mushrooms

A fried dish of eggs coated in batter and sautéed mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,231 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Battered Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the eggs and mix in the milk.

  2. Add flour and salt to create a batter.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan.

  2. Dip mushrooms in the batter and fry until golden brown.

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  5. Mushroom + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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
Bind the batter and set into a structure when fried.
Flour
Thickens the batter so it coats the mushrooms and holds together while frying.
Milk
Loosens the batter to a coating consistency and adds moisture.
Mushrooms
Main filling ingredient, cooked inside the crisp batter coating.

The step that matters

Frying the battered mushrooms. Oil must be hot enough before the batter goes in. If it is too cool, the batter absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of setting and browning quickly.

“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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