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Mushrooms En Coquille

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 14,037 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mushrooms En Coquille

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut large mushrooms into smaller pieces.

  2. Blanch them in boiling water for a few minutes, then transfer to cold water to whiten.

  3. Wipe the mushrooms dry and sauté in a saucepan with a little butter.

  4. When they are colored and almost done, sprinkle in a little flour and chopped parsley.

  5. Once the flour is cooked, pour in 1 cup of stock and let it simmer for about 15 minutes.

  6. Just before serving, stir in the beaten egg yolk and a few drops of lemon juice.

  7. The sauce should be thick.

  8. Fill each shell with the mushroom mixture and sprinkle with sifted cracker crumbs.

  9. Brown the tops slightly with a hot shovel or place in a very hot oven for a few moments before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 124,287 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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