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Mushroom Cutlets

Mushroom cutlets are fried patties made from mushrooms, onions, breadcrumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Mushroom Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Fry the chopped mushrooms and onion in 1 oz of butter until soft.

  2. In a bowl, mix the mushrooms, onion, breadcrumbs, 1 beaten egg, parsley, herbs, pepper, and salt.

  3. If needed, add a little milk to form a paste.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into cutlets.

  2. Dip the cutlets in the remaining beaten egg.

  3. Fry the cutlets in the rest of the butter until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato 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.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  4. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Provide the main savoury bulk and moisture that flavours the cutlet mixture.
Mashed potatoes
Add starch and body so the mixture holds together when shaped.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and give the cutlets a structured, crisp coating when fried.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and form a coating that browns during frying.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for frying, helping the cutlets brown golden.

The step that matters

Fry the cutlets until golden brown. Frying over moderate heat lets the egg coating set and the breadcrumbs crisp and brown. If the heat is too high the outside darkens before the inside is cooked, and if too low the cutlets absorb fat and turn greasy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, potato, egg, butter, milk, parsley, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, potato, egg, butter, milk, parsley, pepper. 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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