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53 Boundary Castle Sauce

A mushroom sauce for timbales, lentils, macaroni, rice, potatoes, toast, trumese, croquettes, patties, and corn meal porridge.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,132 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

53 Boundary Castle Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Simmer onions in oil for 10 minutes, without browning.

  2. Add browned and white flour mixed, then tomato, with water to thicken the sauce.

  3. Add the mushrooms, which have been cooked for 10 minutes, and water to achieve the right consistency, with salt and parsley.

Serve

  1. When serving with timbales decorated with truffles, add truffle juice to the sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

16Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

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.

  1. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flour (in the method)
Browned and white flour mixed together thickens the sauce as it cooks.
Mushrooms
Add body and earthy flavor to the sauce.
Onions (in the method)
Sweetness and savory base as they soften in oil.

“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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