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Mushrooms Under Bells

Mushrooms sautéed in butter, cream, salt, pepper, then baked with toast slices under bell-shaped lids.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kaufman, Nettie M · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 41,516 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushrooms Under Bells

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mushrooms

  1. Saute mushrooms in 1 tablespoon butter to the pound.

  2. Add salt, pepper and 1 cup cream.

  3. Cover and simmer slowly for 10 minutes.

Assemble and bake

  1. Put slices of toast on dishes.

  2. Cover with mushrooms, pour the sauce over.

  3. Put on the bells, set in oven for 15 minutes.

  4. Serve without removing bells.

By Kaufman, Nettie M. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85,593 recipes

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

  3. Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 21,449 recipes mention both: they likely 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

Butter
Adds fat and flavor as the mushrooms saute.
Cream
Gives the sauce richness and body as it simmers.

“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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