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Broiled Mushrooms, Bordelaise

Broiled mushrooms seasoned with oil, salt, pepper, garlic, parsley, chervil, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Mushrooms, Bordelaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the mushrooms as in the previous recipe.

  2. Place them in a bowl with 3 tablespoons of sweet oil, salt, and pepper.

  3. Cover with buttered paper and let macerate in a cool place for 1 hour.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the mushrooms until nicely cooked and place on a hot plate.

  2. In a saucepan, mix 2 tablespoons of sweet oil, chopped garlic, parsley, and chervil.

  3. Warm the mixture thoroughly and pour it over the mushrooms.

  4. Squeeze lemon juice over the mushrooms and 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Chervil + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 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

Mushrooms
Main ingredient that softens and browns under the broiler, absorbing the oil and herb mixture.
Sweet oil
Carries the garlic and herbs and keeps the mushrooms moist while they broil.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows as it warms in the oil.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich oil and earthy mushrooms.

The step that matters

Broil the mushrooms until nicely cooked. Mushrooms release water and then brown only when the surface dries out under high heat. Cooking too gently leaves them soggy, while overcooking dries and toughens them.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, pepper, parsley, chervil, lemon):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, parsley, chervil, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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