Spaghetti with Mushrooms
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the spaghetti until tender in salted water, then drain it.
Assemble
Put the spaghetti into a baking dish in alternate layers with stewed and seasoned mushrooms.
Sprinkle cracker crumbs on top.
Add bits of butter on top.
Bake
Bake in a slow oven for 20 or 30 minutes.
Ensure the mushroom dressing is generous enough to cover the spaghetti.
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
What each ingredient does
- Spaghetti (in the method)
- Forms the bulk of the dish and holds its shape as the layers set.
- Mushrooms (in the method)
- Add moisture and savory flavor that soak into the spaghetti.
- Cracker crumbs (in the method)
- Form a crisp, browned topping over the baked layers.
- Butter (in the method)
- Adds richness and helps the top brown as it bakes.
The step that matters
Cover the spaghetti with mushroom dressing. Pasta left exposed in a dry oven loses moisture and toughens at the surface. A generous coating of mushroom dressing keeps the spaghetti moist while it bakes.
“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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