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Cream Mushrooms

Cream Mushrooms is a creamy mushroom side dish made with butter, cream, milk, flour, and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cream Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Rinse the mushrooms in cold water.

  2. Boil the mushrooms for 10 minutes in hot water with the butter.

Make the cream sauce

  1. In a separate pan, combine the cream, milk, and mushroom cooking liquid.

  2. Whisk in the flour and cayenne pepper until smooth.

  3. Add the cooked mushrooms and season with salt to taste.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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 a savoury cooking liquid into the sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour through the mushrooms.
Cream
Gives the sauce a thick, smooth, rich texture.
Milk
Thins the cream into a looser sauce while keeping it creamy.
Flour
Thickens the liquid into a smooth, cohesive sauce as it is whisked in.

The step that matters

Whisking in the flour. Flour added to warm liquid can clump if not whisked in thoroughly. Whisking while adding it spreads the starch evenly so it hydrates and thickens the sauce smoothly.

“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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