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A casserole of stewed mushrooms topped with eggs, breadcrumbs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Stewed Mushrooms

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stewed Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the mushrooms in half.

  2. Stew them for 10 minutes in a little butter seasoned with pepper, salt, and a small amount of water.

  3. Drain the mushrooms and place them in a pie dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Break enough eggs to cover the mushrooms on top.

  2. Season with pepper and salt, and scatter bits of butter over them.

  3. Top with bread crumbs and bake until the eggs are set.

  4. Serve in the dish.

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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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a cover over the mushrooms, giving a custardy, firm topping when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the seasoning while stewing, and browns the bread crumbs on top.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden layer on top of the eggs during baking.
Mushrooms
Form the savoury base; stewing softens them and concentrates their flavour.

The step that matters

Bake until the eggs are set. Eggs set when their proteins coagulate under heat. Pulling the dish too early leaves a runny layer, while over-baking makes the eggs rubbery and dry.

“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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