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Fried Mushrooms

Mushrooms coated in crumbs and egg, fried in butter until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Fried Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roll the large mushrooms in cracker crumbs.

  2. Dip them in the beaten egg.

  3. Roll them again in cracker crumbs.

  4. Dredge with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Fry

  1. Fry in boiling hot butter until golden brown.

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

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

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Large mushrooms
Serve as the main ingredient, becoming tender and savory when fried.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Beaten egg
Binds the cracker crumbs to the mushrooms so the coating holds.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the coating.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling hot butter. The butter must be hot enough to crisp the coating quickly. If it is too cool, the crumbs absorb fat and turn greasy, and the mushrooms release moisture and steam instead of browning.

“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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