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Mushrooms Broiled

Broiled mushrooms served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Mushrooms Broiled

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Gather fresh mushrooms, pare, and cut off the stems.

Season and broil

  1. Dip the mushrooms in melted butter and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Broil the mushrooms on both sides over a clear fire.

Serve

  1. Serve the broiled mushrooms on toast.

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

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

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

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

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish, softening and browning under direct heat.
Melted butter
Carries seasoning and adds fat that helps the mushroom surfaces brown.
Toast
Gives a crisp base that soaks up juices from the broiled mushrooms.

The step that matters

Broil on both sides over a clear fire. Mushrooms are mostly water, so they can steam instead of browning if the fire is smoky or the pieces are crowded. A clear, hot fire lets surface moisture evaporate and browning develop, and turning them ensures both sides cook evenly.

“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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