Name: Cream Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients: 1 cup fresh common mushrooms, chopped fine; 1 cup canned mushrooms, chopped fine (optional); 1 cream sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cream Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

1 cup fresh common mushrooms, chopped fine
1 cup canned mushrooms, chopped fine (optional)
1 cream sauce

Directions

Make a cream sauce.
If using canned mushrooms, heat them through without long cooking.
If using fresh mushrooms, cook them in a double boiler for ten minutes.
Chop fine stems may be used for this sauce.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,500 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,480 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).