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Eggs with Mushrooms

A baked dish of eggs and sautéed mushrooms topped with butter and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Slice the mushrooms in half and stew them in butter for 10 minutes, seasoning with pepper, salt, and a little water.

  2. Drain the mushrooms and place them in a pie dish.

Top and bake

  1. Break enough eggs over the mushrooms to cover them.

  2. Season with pepper and salt, scatter bits of butter on top, and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.

  3. Bake until the eggs are set and serve in the same 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (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, forming a soft structure that holds the dish together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the mushrooms brown and carry flavour.
Mushrooms
Provide moisture and earthy savoury flavour that the eggs bake over.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping through browning in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until the eggs are set. Eggs turn from liquid to firm as proteins coagulate with heat. Pulling the dish too early leaves runny whites, while overbaking makes the yolks dry and rubbery.

“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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