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Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms

Scrambled eggs cooked with mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, and red pepper, served over buttered toast.

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 ↓

Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and peel the mushrooms, then chop them finely.

  2. Fry the chopped mushrooms in a little hot butter.

  3. In a bowl, whisk the eggs until well combined.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the eggs into a saucepan and add the fried mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, and red pepper.

  2. Stir over low heat with a wooden spoon until the eggs are lightly set.

  3. Serve the egg mixture on top of neatly trimmed buttered toast.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  5. Egg + mushroomtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,987 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 into soft curds that give the scrambled dish its structure and body.
Mushrooms
Add savory flavor and a moist, tender texture to the eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, keeping the eggs soft and preventing them from sticking.

The step that matters

Stir over low heat until lightly set. Eggs turn rubbery and watery when overcooked or cooked on high heat. Gentle low heat with constant stirring lets the proteins set into soft, creamy curds while still retaining moisture.

“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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