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Mushroom Savoury

A baked pie of bread, eggs, milk, mushrooms, and onions.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By T. R. Allinson · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Mushroom Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Crush the toast with your hand and soak it in the milk.

  2. Add the eggs, well whipped, to the soaked toast.

  3. Peel, wash, and cut the mushrooms; fry them and the onion in the butter.

Make and bake the pie

  1. When the mushrooms and onion have cooked in the butter for 10 minutes, add them to the other ingredients and season with pepper and salt.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased pie dish and bake the savoury for 1 hour.

  3. Serve with green vegetables, potatoes, and tomato sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

732Calories
29 gProtein
15 gFat
119 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 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 T. R. Allinson. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a firm, sliceable savoury custard when baked.
Allinson bread toast
Soaks up the milk and gives the pie body and structure.
Milk
Adds moisture and softens the bread so the mixture bakes evenly.
Mushrooms (in the method)
Provide the main savoury flavour and moisture in the filling.
Onion
Adds sweetness and savoury depth when fried in butter.

The step that matters

Pouring and baking the mixture. Eggs set through gentle heat; if the filling is overcooked or the oven too hot, the custard can curdle, turn rubbery and weep liquid.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, egg, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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