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Stuffed Mushrooms

Stuffed mushrooms with herb and breadcrumb filling, baked with butter, lemon, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Stuffed Mushrooms

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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the stuffing and bake

  1. Make a stuffing by mixing chopped mushrooms, sweet herbs, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and butter.

  2. Place the mushrooms in a baking dish and add butter, herbs, and lemon slice.

  3. Bake until the mushrooms are cooked.

Finish the sauce and serve

  1. Thicken the sauce with flour before serving with the stuffing, lemon juice, and white pepper.

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

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chopped mushrooms
Form the main filling and release moisture that flavours the stuffing and sauce.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb liquid and give the stuffing body so it holds together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour and helps the mushrooms brown.
Flour
Thickens the sauce by binding with the liquid as it heats.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Avocadofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, nutmeg, butter, flour. 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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