Name: Another Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients: ½ to 1 pint very small mushroom buttons; 1 pint sauce tournee; 4 to 8 tablespoons rich cream

Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Another Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

½ to 1 pint very small mushroom buttons
1 pint sauce tournee
4 to 8 tablespoons rich cream

Directions

Prepare the mushroom buttons carefully.
Add the mushrooms to the sauce tournee and cook until tender.
Stir in the rich cream and bring to a boil.
Serve the sauce with boiled poultry, breast of veal, or veal cutlets.

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.

Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,500 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,480 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Mushroom buttons: Provide the main flavour and soft texture in the finished sauce.
Sauce tournee: Forms the base sauce that the mushrooms and cream are added to.
Rich cream: Adds richness and body, giving the sauce a smoother, silkier mouthfeel.

“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.