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Fried Mushrooms

Mushrooms fried in butter, served on lightly toasted and buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Fried Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut off the stalks, wash, peel, and dry the mushrooms.

Fry the mushrooms

  1. Heat the butter in a frying pan until it hisses.

  2. Add the mushrooms and fry for three minutes on each side.

Prepare the toast and serve

  1. Lightly toast the bread and butter it.

  2. Dust the bread with salt and pepper.

  3. Add a bit of butter on each slice.

  4. Serve the fried mushrooms on the bread.

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. 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. 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. Pepper + breadtop 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

Mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish, softening and browning as they fry in butter.
Butter
Carries heat into the mushrooms and adds richness and browning to the surface.
Bread
Provides a crisp, toasted base that holds the fried mushrooms.

The step that matters

Heating the butter until it hisses. The butter must be hot enough to sear the mushrooms rather than let them steam in their own liquid. Too cool and they release water and turn soggy and pale.

“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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