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Omelette Aux Champignons

A French omelette with stewed 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: 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 ↓

Omelette Aux Champignons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stew the fresh mushrooms until tender.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet and cook until the edges set.

  2. Place the stewed mushrooms across the center of the omelet.

  3. Fold the omelet over the mushrooms and slide it onto a plate.

  4. Pour mushroom sauce over the omelet 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. 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. Mushroom + eggtop 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 the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding it together when folded.
Fresh mushrooms
Add savory flavor and moisture to the filling once stewed until tender.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the omelet from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Cook the egg mixture until the edges set. Eggs turn from liquid to a firm protein network as they heat. If the heat is too high the edges overcook and toughen before the centre sets, so cook over medium heat and fold while the top is still slightly moist.

“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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