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Baked Mushroom Omelet

A baked dish of sautéed mushrooms, eggs, stock, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Baked Mushroom Omelet

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Cook the mushrooms

  1. Combine mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, and lemon juice in a saucepan.

  2. Cover and simmer slowly for 10 minutes.

  3. Add chicken or veal stock and cook for another 10 minutes.

Bake and serve

  1. Stir in the beaten eggs.

  2. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish.

  3. Sift bread crumbs over the top.

  4. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until the eggs are set, about 5 minutes.

  5. Serve immediately in the baking dish.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 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 when baked, binding the mixture into a tender, sliceable omelet.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture that cooks down into the filling.
Chicken or veal stock
Adds savoury depth and liquid, thickened to carry flavour through the custard.
Bread crumbs
Form a light crust on top that browns in the oven.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the mushrooms brown and soften in the pan.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten eggs before baking. Eggs set from proteins that coagulate with heat. Adding them to a mixture that is too hot may scramble them, while adding them too late leaves the omelet uneven. Cook gently and watch for a set centre.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Plumfits less well
  4. Grapefits less well

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