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Mushroom Cups are stuffed mushrooms baked with breadcrumbs, stock, and butter, served on toast with Bechamel sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Mushroom Cups

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Stem, wash, peel, and wipe the mushrooms carefully.

Fill the mushrooms

  1. In a bowl, combine minced mushrooms, breadcrumbs, stock, salt, and pepper.

  2. Fill the inverted mushrooms with the mixture, mounding it with a bit of butter on top.

Bake and serve

  1. Grease a baking dish with a little butter and place the mushrooms stuffed side up.

  2. Cover the dish and bake for 15 minutes or until steaming hot.

  3. Serve on buttered toast and pour Bechamel sauce over them.

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

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

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

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

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

  4. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Form the cup shape and release moisture that steams the filling as it bakes.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb the mushroom juices and stock, giving the filling a soft, binding texture.
Chicken or veal stock
Adds moisture and savory depth to the minced mushroom filling.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the top of the filling brown lightly.

The step that matters

Cover the dish and bake for 15 minutes. Covering traps steam so the mushroom cups cook through and the filling heats evenly without drying out on top.

“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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