Name: Fresh Mushrooms--Under Glass Globe with Cream
Ingredients: 1/2 cup of cream on to the mushrooms; 5 mushroom caps

Why it works: Cream and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,500 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Fresh Mushrooms--Under Glass Globe with Cream

Ingredients

1/2 cup of cream on to the mushrooms
5 mushroom caps

Directions

Prepare

Cover the bottom of a porcelain dish with toast.
On the toast, pile mushrooms, gills down, several rows high, sprinkling with salt.
Pour ⅓-½ cup of cream over the mushrooms.

Cook and serve

Cover with the globe or bell and simmer on the top of the stove for 20-30 minutes.
Remove the cover after the plate is placed before the guest.
Serve the dish for luncheon when it is the principal course.
For a single course, use a smaller portion of toast and no more than 4 or 5 mushroom caps.
Optionally bake the dishes in the oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

66Calories

3 gProtein

6 gFat

3 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15

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

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. 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.

Cream + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,500 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms: Form the main body of the dish and release moisture and savoury flavour as they cook.
Cream: Adds richness and moisture, and gently thickens as it simmers beneath the cover.

“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.