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Omelet with Cepes

A quick omelet cooked with sautéed 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 ↓

Omelet with Cepes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the mushrooms

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the cepes and sauté until tender.

Make the omelette

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

  2. Pour the eggs over the mushrooms in the skillet.

  3. Cook until the edges are set, then fold the omelet in half.

  4. 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. 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 the omelette's structure as they cook, giving it body and a tender texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for cooking the mushrooms and the eggs, and helps browning.
Cepes
Provide the main earthy, savoury flavour and soft texture once sautéed.

The step that matters

Cook the eggs until the edges are just set. Egg proteins set with heat, and overcooking tightens them, making the omelette dry and rubbery. Stopping while the centre is still slightly soft keeps it tender.

“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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