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Mushrooms stuffed with a butter, onion, water, bread crumb mixture, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushrooms, Stuffed

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the filling

  1. Wash and remove the stalks from the mushrooms.

  2. Simmer the minced onion in butter for 5 minutes.

  3. Add water, bread crumbs, minced mushroom stalks, pepper, and salt, then simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the hollow of the mushrooms with the mixture.

  2. Sprinkle dry bread crumbs over the top and brown in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 5 minutes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Their hollow caps hold the filling, and their flesh softens and releases moisture as they cook.
Butter
Carries the onion's flavour and adds richness to the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the liquid and onion juices to form a soft, cohesive stuffing, and the dry crumbs on top brown.
Onion
Adds savoury sweetness and aroma as it softens in butter.

The step that matters

Sprinkle dry bread crumbs over the top and brown in a hot oven. The filling is already moist, so the top needs a hot oven and dry crumbs to crisp and brown rather than steam. The record gives only a 5-minute time, so watch the colour.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, butter, bread, 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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