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Mushroom Croquettes

Mushroom croquettes are made by boiling mushrooms, draining them, and mixing the reserved liquid with cream and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mushroom Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the mushrooms

  1. In a saucepan, combine the chopped mushrooms, water, and salt.

  2. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.

  3. Drain the mushrooms and reserve the liquid.

Make the sauce

  1. Use the reserved liquid with cream to make the sauce.

  2. Add the egg to the sauce and mix well.

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.

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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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Mushroom + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,987 recipes

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

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they 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

Mushrooms
Provide the bulk of the filling and its savory, earthy flavor.
Egg
Binds the mixture and sets when heated, giving the croquettes structure.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the egg to the sauce. Egg proteins set at moderate heat, so if the sauce is too hot the egg can scramble into lumps. Letting the sauce cool slightly and mixing well keeps it smooth and evenly bound.

“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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