Name: Mushrooms a LA Sabine
Ingredients: 1/2 pound of nuishrooms; 2 tablespoons butter; 8 tablespoons grated cheese; salt; pepper

Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,962 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushrooms a LA Sabine

Ingredients

Directions

Wash 1/2 pound of nuishrooms ; remove stems and peel caps; sprinkle with salt and pepper; dredge with flour and cook three minutes in a hot pan wnth 2 tablespoons butter; add V/^ cups brown sauce and cook slowly five minutes; sprinkle with 8 tablespoons grated cheese; as soon as cheese is melted arrange mushrooms on toast and pour over them the sauce.

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together7,861 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).