Why it works: Cheese and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,015 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Mushrooms on Toast
Ingredients
Directions
Cook mushrooms slowly for 5 minutes.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Once the cheese is melted, arrange mushrooms on toast and pour the sauce over them.
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 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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Cheese + mushroomtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,015 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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