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Biscuit Pates

A biscuit shell filled with a mushroom and cream mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Biscuit Pates

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the biscuits

  1. Prepare a light baking powder biscuit.

  2. Optionally, toast stale biscuits in a hot oven for a few minutes before filling.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix the cooked mushrooms with cream and mushroom juice.

  2. Thicken the mixture with flour and butter, then season with salt and pepper.

Fill and serve

  1. Slice the bottom off each biscuit and hollow out the center, leaving thick walls.

  2. Place a small piece of butter in each biscuit shell and fill with the mushroom mixture.

  3. 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Flour + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together889 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  5. Pepper + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Provide the main savory flavor and bulk of the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the filling.
Flour
Thickens the mushroom mixture so it holds its shape in the shells.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the filling taste rounded.

The step that matters

Thicken the mixture with flour and butter. Flour must be cooked with the fat and liquid long enough to thicken smoothly. If it is not cooked through, the filling can taste raw and stay runny, so it will not hold inside the biscuit shells.

“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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