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Mushroom Toast

Mushroom Toast is a bread crust filled with sautéed mushrooms, butter, flour, cayenne pepper, cream or milk, and ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Mushroom Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Remove the stems, red inside, and skins from the mushrooms.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  3. Add the mushrooms to the butter.

  4. Season with cayenne pepper.

  5. Cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes.

  6. Stir in the flour.

  7. Cook until slightly browned.

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut a 1-inch thick crust from the bottom of the loaf.

  2. Scoop out the center of the loaf.

  3. Butter the crust.

  4. Heat the crust over a brisk fire.

  5. Place the crust on a hot dish in front of the fire.

Finish and serve

  1. Gradually pour in the cream or milk to the mushrooms.

  2. Add ketchup for flavor.

  3. Stew gently for 2 minutes.

  4. Pour the mixture into the crust.

  5. Serve hot.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Form the main filling and release moisture as they cook down in the butter.
Butter
Carries the cooking of the mushrooms and adds richness and browning to the filling.
Flour
Thickens the mushroom mixture so it holds together in the crust.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and creaminess, turning the mushrooms into a sauce.
Bread loaf
Serves as the edible crust that holds the creamy mushroom filling.

The step that matters

Stir in the flour and cook until slightly browned. Flour must cook in the fat for a short time to lose its raw taste and to thicken evenly. Browning adds flavor, but over-browning can scorch the butter and make the filling bitter.

“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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