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Mushroom Omelet

A lightly browned egg dish folded over sautéed mushrooms and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Mushroom Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the omelet

  1. Heat a frying pan over medium heat and add the butter.

  2. When the butter begins to brown, pour in the beaten eggs.

  3. As the eggs set, gently break the omelet with a fork to allow uncooked egg to reach the pan.

  4. When cooked to your liking, place the mushrooms on one half and fold the other half over.

Finish and serve

  1. Loosen the omelet from the pan and turn it out onto a dish.

  2. 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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 omelet's structure and create a tender, custardy body when cooked.
Button mushrooms
Add moisture and savory flavor inside the folded omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and browning flavor to the pan and surface of the omelet.

The step that matters

Breaking the set eggs with a fork. Stirring gently as the eggs begin to set lets liquid egg flow into the gaps and cook evenly, giving a tender rather than rubbery texture. Overworking the eggs once they firm up can toughen them.

“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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