Why it works: Mushroom and parmesan cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,199 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Boil the macaroni in water with butter and a little salt until tender.
Strain the macaroni and place it in cold water for a few minutes, then strain again.
Cut the macaroni into 1-inch lengths and then into circular pieces.
Add the macaroni, sliced truffles, and a tin of champignons to a stewpan.
In a separate bowl, mix the Espagnol sauce, glaze, gelatine, and mushroom juice, stirring until it reaches the consistency of double cream.
Pass the sauce through a tammy cloth and keep warm in a bain-marie.
Sprinkle the macaroni mixture with Parmesan cheese, cayenne pepper, and salt, then add the raisins.
Heat the mixture slowly in the bain-marie and toss lightly before serving.
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.
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Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,199 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
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Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,525 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,163 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together13,580 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Walnut + mushroomtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together763 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the raisin
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, walnut, mushroom, parmesan cheese, pepper, butter):
- Avocadofits better
- Lemonfits better
- Grapefits better
- Raisinthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, walnut, mushroom, parmesan cheese, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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