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Oysters, Patties Of, with Mushrooms

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 12,516 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Oysters, Patties Of, with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare and bake the patties as in the last recipe.

  2. Trim, wash, drain, and dry the mushrooms, then cut them into small pieces.

  3. Fry the mushrooms in butter for 4 to 5 minutes.

  4. Remove gills from the oysters, thicken the liquor with flour, and pour it over the mushrooms.

  5. Add veal gravy, thick cream, salt, pepper, cayenne, and grated nutmeg.

  6. Stir in the oysters and simmer gently for about 30 seconds.

  7. Fill the patties with the mixture 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mushroom + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,015 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + vealtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + oystertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, butter, oyster, flour, veal, cream, pepper):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, butter, oyster, flour, veal, cream, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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