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Mushroom Savoury

A simple dish of broiled mushrooms seasoned with salt and cayenne, served on toasted or fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushroom Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the stalks and skins from the mushrooms.

  2. Lightly sprinkle the mushrooms with fine salt.

Cook

  1. Broil the mushrooms in a small quantity of butter.

  2. Dust the broiled mushrooms with cayenne pepper.

Serve

  1. Serve the mushrooms on small rounds of toast or fried bread.

  2. For a special touch, cut the bread with a fluted cutter and fry in oiled butter.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Fresh mushrooms
Form the savory main body and release moisture that concentrates flavor when broiled.
Butter
Provides fat for browning the mushrooms and carries a rich, nutty aroma.
Bread
Gives a crisp, absorbent base that holds the hot mushrooms.

The step that matters

Broil in only a small quantity of butter. Mushrooms hold a lot of water. Crowding them or using too much butter traps that moisture, so they steam instead of browning and develop concentrated flavor.

“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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