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Mushroom Omelet

A quick omelet cooked with sliced mushrooms, seasoned with salt and pepper, and garnished with watercress, mushrooms, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 469 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mushroom Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.

  3. Pour the eggs into the pan and cook until set.

  4. Add the fried mushrooms on top.

  5. Fold the omelet neatly and serve on a napkin.

  6. Garnish with watercress, chopped mushrooms, and parsley.

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. Watercress + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  4. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the structure and body of the omelet as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor and keeps the eggs from sticking to the pan.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and a tender texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Pour the eggs into the pan and cook until set. Eggs cook quickly once they hit the hot pan. Cooking over medium heat until just set keeps the omelet tender, while overcooking makes the eggs dry and rubbery.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, mushroom, pepper, watercress):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, mushroom, pepper, watercress. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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