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Fresh Mushrooms Baked

Baked bread squares topped with buttered mushrooms, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Fresh Mushrooms Baked

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. Clean the mushrooms thoroughly.

  2. Cut bread into 2‑inch squares and place in a baking pan.

Bake

  1. Spread each slice of bread with butter and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Place one or more mushroom caps on each slice of bread to cover it.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 5 minutes.

  4. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper, then add a piece of butter the size of a hazelnut on each mushroom.

  5. Return the pan to the oven and bake until the mushrooms are tender.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Fresh mushrooms
Soften during baking and release moisture and savory flavor onto the bread.
Bread
Forms the crisp-edged base that holds the mushrooms and soaks up their juices.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the bread brown while carrying flavor into the mushrooms.

The step that matters

Return the pan to the oven and bake until the mushrooms are tender.. Mushrooms hold a lot of water. Baking long enough lets that water evaporate and concentrates their flavor, while underbaking leaves them wet and soggy on the bread.

“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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