Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 12,525 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓
Tomatoes Stuffed with Cheese and Mushrooms
Ingredients
Directions
One-half pound fresh mushrooms, one-half cup of grated cheese. Peel and cut the mushrooms in small pieces, stew for five minutes in two tablespoonfuls of boiling water, drain well, put in sauce pan, two tablespoonfuls of butter ; stir into it two of flour, one- half teaspoonful salt and one-eighth of paprica, and the water that was drained from the mushrooms, with enough cream to make one cup in all. Cook ten min- utes, stirring. Then add the mushrooms and grated cheese, fill the tomatoes with the mixture and cover the top with buttered crumbs. Bake with a few table- spoonfuls of stock or hot water in the pan. Serve on buttered toast.
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.
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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.
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Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together12,525 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together7,962 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Mushroom + cheesetop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together1,015 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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