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Omelet with Cepes

A quick omelette cooked with cepes (mushrooms), butter, eggs, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Omelet with Cepes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. If using dried cepes, soak them in warm water for 30 minutes, then drain and chop. If using fresh, clean and slice them.

Cook the omelette

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with salt and pepper until well combined.

  2. Heat the butter in a skillet over medium heat until melted.

  3. Add the cepes to the skillet and sauté for 2-3 minutes until tender.

  4. Pour the beaten eggs over the cepes and cook until the edges begin to set.

  5. Gently lift the edges with a spatula, allowing uncooked eggs to flow underneath.

  6. When the omelet is mostly set but still slightly runny on top, fold it in half and serve immediately.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  3. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 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 a tender structure as they cook, forming the body of the omelette.
Cepes
Add earthy, savoury flavour and a tender, meaty texture to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Removing the omelette while still slightly runny on top. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the pan. Folding when only mostly set keeps the interior moist and tender instead of dry and rubbery.

“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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