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Mushrooms with Bacon

Sautéed mushrooms and bacon cooked together and served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,067 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Mushrooms with Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare one-half dozen slices of nice English bacon and mushrooms as desired.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the bacon in the usual way until streaked with lean.

  2. Just before the bacon is done, add the mushrooms and fry them slowly.

  3. Serve hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

157Calories
4 gProtein
15 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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

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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + mustardtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,003 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + vinegartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Renders fat that cooks the mushrooms and adds salty, smoky flavour.
Mushrooms (in the method)
Absorb the bacon fat and brown gently, adding savoury, earthy flavour.
Butter
Adds richness and helps carry flavour in the finished dish.

The step that matters

Adding the mushrooms to the bacon. Mushrooms are mostly water, so frying them slowly lets that moisture evaporate and the surfaces brown instead of steaming. Adding them too early can overcook the bacon or make the mushrooms soggy.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, vinegar):

  1. Mustardthe original
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Cucumberfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, vinegar. 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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