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Mushroom Omelet

A quick omelet cooked with mushrooms and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Mushroom Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Peel, wipe, and slice or chop the mushrooms.

  2. Fry the mushrooms gently in a little butter, tossing them in the pan to prevent browning.

Make the omelet

  1. Whisk the eggs until light just before cooking.

  2. Pour the eggs into a pan and stir gently until they begin to thicken.

  3. Shake the pan until the center of the omelet is set.

  4. Spread the cooked mushrooms and butter 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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. 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 structure of the omelet as the proteins coagulate with gentle heat.
Mushrooms
Add savory flavor and moisture filling to the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and carries flavor when frying the mushrooms and coating the pan.

The step that matters

Shake the pan until the center of the omelet is set. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat, so stopping once the surface looks dry can leave the center runny. Stop when the center is just set so the omelet stays tender rather than 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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