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Mushroom Savoury

A baked mushroom and rusk savory with eggs, milk, butter, onion, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Mushroom Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Crush the rusks and soak them in the milk.

  2. Add the eggs and whisk until well combined.

  3. Peel, wash, and chop the mushrooms.

Make the filling

  1. Fry the mushrooms and onion in the butter for 10 minutes.

  2. Combine the mushroom mixture with the soaked rusks and eggs, and season with pepper and salt.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased pie dish.

  2. Bake for 1 hour at 350°F (175°C).

  3. Serve with green vegetables, potatoes, and 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.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rusks
Soak up milk and bind the mixture, giving it body and a soft, set crumb.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the mixture into a firm, sliceable savory bake.
Milk
Softens the crushed rusks and adds moisture so the bake stays tender.
Butter
Fat for frying the mushrooms and onion, adding richness and browning flavor.
Mushrooms
Main savory bulk; they release moisture and add earthy, umami flavor.

The step that matters

Frying the mushrooms and onion. Mushrooms release a lot of water. Frying them until the liquid evaporates and they brown concentrates their flavor and keeps the bake from becoming soggy.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, butter, mushroom, 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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