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Mushrooms Fried

Mushrooms fried in butter after soaking, egg coating, and seasoned cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Mushrooms Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the mushrooms in salt water for 1 hour, then rinse in fresh water, changing the water frequently.

  2. Split the mushrooms in half and dip them in beaten eggs.

Coat and fry

  1. Coat the mushrooms in seasoned cracker crumbs mixed with coarse sea salt and pepper.

  2. Fry the mushrooms in butter until they are a delicate brown.

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

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

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,987 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

Mushrooms
Main ingredient that is soaked, split, coated and fried.
Eggs
Beaten eggs bind the cracker crumb coating to the mushrooms.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browning crust when fried.
Butter
Fries the coating and promotes browning, adding richness.

The step that matters

Frying in butter until delicate brown. Butter browns quickly because its milk solids caramelize, so heat that is too high can scorch the coating before the mushrooms cook through. Moderate heat and watching the colour gives an even, delicate brown.

“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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