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With Mushrooms

A creamy mushroom sauce served with diced hard‑boiled eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

With Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the mushrooms into strips or fillets.

  2. Chop the onion and garlic.

Make the sauce

  1. In a pan, melt the butter and fry the mushrooms, onion, and garlic.

  2. Add the flour and stir for about 1 minute.

  3. Pour in the broth and white wine, and boil gently until reduced by half.

Finish and serve

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs into dice or leave the yolks whole and add the whites diced.

  2. Boil for 1 minute and serve.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Mushroom + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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

  5. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Release moisture and savory flavour as they brown in the butter.
Butter
Carries fat for frying and adds richness to the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a light sauce once it is stirred in.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma, and reduces to concentrate flavour in the sauce.
Hard-boiled eggs
Provide body and protein-rich texture to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Reducing the broth and wine by half. Boiling gently concentrates flavour and thickens the liquid. If it is under-reduced the sauce will be thin and bland, and if boiled hard it can scorch or turn bitter.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, onion, garlic, butter, flour, white wine, egg):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, onion, garlic, butter, flour, white wine, egg. 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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