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Stuffed Mushrooms

Stuffed mushrooms are mushroom caps filled with a savory mixture of ground meats, sweetbreads, and vegetables, topped with bread crumbs and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

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

  2. Remove the caps from the mushrooms, peel, and scrape out the insides.

  3. Sauté the mushroom caps in 1 tablespoon of butter until tender.

  4. In a pan, sauté the chopped onion and 2 tablespoons of chopped mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of butter.

  5. Stir in the flour, then add the brown stock and cream, stirring until thick.

  6. Season with salt, cayenne, and parsley.

  7. Mix in the ground chicken, ground ham, and sweetbreads, then let cool.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the mushroom caps with the mixture using a pastry bag.

  2. Top with buttered bread crumbs and bake until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on round toast with mushroom sauce.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Their caps form the edible shell that holds the filling during baking.
Butter
Adds richness and helps sauté the vegetables and mushroom caps until tender.
Flour
Thickens the stock and cream into a smooth, stable sauce that binds the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, making the thickened sauce softer and smoother.
Brown stock
Provides savory depth and liquid for the sauce that binds the filling.
Ground chicken
Supplies protein and body, giving the stuffing a firm, meaty texture.

The step that matters

Stirring the flour, stock and cream until thick. Flour thickens liquid only when it is stirred while the liquid heats, so the sauce becomes smooth and firm. If lumps form or it stays thin, the filling will be loose and may run out of the caps during baking.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, butter, onion, flour, cream, pepper, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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