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Mushrooms a LA Japan

A mushroom stew with chicken, veal tongue, beef marrow, tomato, Worcestershire sauce, butter, pepper, and flour, served over rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Mushrooms a LA Japan

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Rub mushrooms to remove skin and dice them.

  2. Cook mushrooms in salt water for 10 minutes.

Make the stew

  1. Add strained tomato, chopped chicken, veal tongue, and beef marrow to the pot.

  2. Stir in Worcestershire sauce, butter, and pepper.

  3. Thicken the mixture with a little flour.

Serve

  1. Serve with unsalted rice.

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.

Explore the science

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. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Provide the main earthy body and savory flavor of the stew.
Strained tomato
Forms the liquid base and adds acidity and savory depth.
Chopped chicken
Contributes protein and savory meaty flavor to the stew.
Beef marrow
Adds richness and fat that enrich the texture and flavor of the broth.
Flour
Thickens the stew by swelling with liquid as it cooks.

The step that matters

Thicken the mixture with a little flour. Flour must be stirred in evenly and cooked through, otherwise it can clump or leave a raw, pasty taste. Adding it gradually into simmering liquid helps it disperse and thicken smoothly.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, chicken, veal, beef, sauce, butter, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, chicken, veal, beef, sauce, butter, pepper. 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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