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Mushrooms Under Glass

A baked dish of sautéed mushrooms in cream served in a glass with toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushrooms Under Glass

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the mushrooms in several waters, then peel, stem, and dry them.

  2. Brown one side of each slice of bread to make rounds of toast.

Make the sauce

  1. Fry the mushrooms in butter for 1 minute.

  2. Pour in the cream and let the mixture simmer slowly for 10 minutes.

Bake and serve

  1. Place a slice of toast in each baking dish and top with the mushrooms and cream sauce.

  2. Cover with glass lids and bake for 15 minutes.

  3. Serve with the glass covers on.

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

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

  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 + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Their moisture releases and reduces while frying, concentrating flavor and giving the sauce body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps brown the mushrooms for savory aroma.
Cream
Forms the rich sauce, thickening gently as it simmers and coating the mushrooms.
Bread
Provides a toasted base that holds the sauce and adds a crisp, toasty contrast.

The step that matters

Simmer the cream slowly. Cream can scorch or separate if boiled hard. A gentle simmer lets it reduce and thicken smoothly while keeping its texture silky.

“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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