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Mushbooms on Toast

Grilled mushrooms served on toasted bread with lemon slices, butter, salt, pepper, and parsley or watercress garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mushbooms on Toast

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Cut off the root ends of the mushrooms and peel them.

  2. Dip the mushrooms in butter and grill them.

  3. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Assemble and serve

  1. Butter the toasted bread slices well.

  2. Place a thin slice of lemon on each slice of bread.

  3. Dress the grilled mushrooms on top of the lemon slices.

  4. Garnish with sprigs of parsley or watercress and serve.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Main ingredient; grilling browns their surface and concentrates their savory flavor.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor and helping the mushrooms brown on the grill.
Bread
Toasted base that gives a crisp, sturdy surface to hold the mushrooms.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the rich butter and savory mushrooms.

The step that matters

Grilling the mushrooms. Mushrooms release water as they cook. Grilling them hot and not crowding them lets moisture evaporate so the surface browns instead of steaming, which gives deeper flavor.

“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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