Name: Stewed Mushrooms
Ingredients: 2 tablespoonfuls of cream can be added to the above; 2 balls; salt; pepper

Why it works: Cream and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Stewed Mushrooms

Ingredients

2 tablespoonfuls of cream can be added to the above
2 balls
salt
pepper

Directions

Prepare and cook

Peel the mushrooms, wash them in water, and cut off the bottom of the stalk.
Put the mushrooms in a porcelain-lined kettle; to every pint of mushrooms, add 1 tablespoonful of butter.
Divide the butter into 2 balls and roll them in flour.
Let the mushrooms cook in their own liquor, with butter and flour, for 15 minutes.

Finish and serve

Add salt and pepper and serve.
Alternatively, add 2 tablespoonfuls of cream to the mixture; then take from the fire and add beaten yolk of 1 0.%,% and 1 tablespoonful of sherry.
Serve immediately.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

57Calories

1 gProtein

6 gFat

2 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Fredonia, N.Y. Trinity parish guild, comp. [from old catalog]. 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.

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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.

Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together21,449 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms (in the method): Release their own liquor, which cooks down to form the stew's moist base.
Butter (in the method): Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour through the mushrooms as they cook.
Flour (in the method): Thickens the cooking liquor so the stew becomes fuller and less watery.

“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.