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Creamy Mushroom Soup with Blue Cheese Toasts Recipe

We took every measure to max out the mushroom factor in this soup, then added some kick with blue cheese toasts.This recipe was featured as part of our Fall...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 cups

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + blue cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  4. Wine + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  5. Thyme + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, wine, garlic, mushroom, cream, blue cheese):

  1. Thymethe original
  2. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, wine, garlic, mushroom, cream, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).