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Eggs with Mushrooms

A dish of boiled eggs served with sautéed mushrooms and onions in gravy, seasoned with pepper and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggs hard, then cool and slice them thinly.

Cook

  1. Slice and fry the mushrooms and onions in the butter.

  2. Add the gravy, bring to a boil, and season with pepper and salt.

  3. Add the sliced eggs and heat thoroughly.

Serve

  1. Carefully dish and serve.

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

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

  2. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the main body of the dish and set firm when hard-boiled.
Mushrooms
Add earthy savour and a tender, moist texture when fried.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften and brown in the butter.
Butter
Carries the frying flavour and helps the mushrooms and onions brown.
Gravy
Supplies liquid and savoury depth that coats the eggs and vegetables.

The step that matters

Add the sliced eggs and heat thoroughly. Hard-boiled egg whites turn rubbery and the yolks can dry out if they are overheated. Warm the eggs gently in the hot gravy just until heated through, so they stay tender.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mushroom, butter, pepper. 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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