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Mushrooms in Butter

A method for preserving peeled mushrooms in butter, water, and seasonings by packing them in jars or tins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Mushrooms in Butter

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Melt the butter in a kettle until it boils.

  2. Add the peeled mushrooms and boil for 5 minutes.

  3. Remove the mushrooms with a skimmer and pack them tightly in jars, covering with melted butter.

Make the mixture and can

  1. In a flat-bottom kettle, combine the mushrooms, water, salt, onions, black pepper, parsley, and garlic.

  2. Cover and boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Can the mixture in tins or jars, pouring 1 oz of melted butter over pints and 2 oz over quarts.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish and soften into a tender, juicy texture when boiled.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, coating the mushrooms and carrying flavour through the jars.
Onions
Contribute savoury sweetness and aroma as they cook in the liquid.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows during boiling.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, butter, onion, pepper, parsley, garlic):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, butter, onion, pepper, parsley, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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