Name: Cream of Golden Mushroom & Bacon Soup
Prep time: 8 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons Sweet Cream Butter; 1 cup White Button Mushrooms, Cleaned And Sliced Thin; ½ teaspoons Black Pepper; ½ cups Milk; ¼ cups Light Cream; 1 cup Low Sodium Vegetable Stock; 2 cans (10 Oz. Size) Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup; 6 slices Crisp-cooked Bacon Cut Into Pieces

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cream of Golden Mushroom & Bacon Soup

Serves 4

Prep8 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons Sweet Cream Butter
1 cup White Button Mushrooms, Cleaned And Sliced Thin
½ teaspoons Black Pepper
½ cups Milk
¼ cups Light Cream
1 cup Low Sodium Vegetable Stock
2 cans (10 Oz. Size) Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup
6 slices Crisp-cooked Bacon Cut Into Pieces

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

410Calories

15 gProtein

29 gFat

26 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Soup	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,525 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,580 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,231 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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