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Beefsteak Smothered with Mushrooms

A beefsteak smothered with mushrooms, baked and broiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Beefsteak Smothered with Mushrooms

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Wash the mushrooms.

  2. Remove the stems from the beefsteak mushrooms.

  3. Slice the mushrooms.

  4. Place all mushrooms in a baking pan.

  5. Sprinkle with salt.

  6. Add butter.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 45 minutes.

  2. Broil the steak until nearly done.

  3. Place the steak in the pan with the mushrooms.

  4. Cover with remaining mushrooms.

  5. Return to the oven for 10 minutes.

  6. Dish and serve immediately.

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. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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

  3. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Beefsteak mushrooms
Provide a meaty texture and savory flavor as the main body of the dish.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the mushrooms brown and taste rounder.
Coarse sea salt
Draws out moisture from the mushrooms and seasons them throughout.

The step that matters

Broil the steak until nearly done. Broiling is fast and intense, so the steak can overcook or char before it is ready. Stopping just short of done lets it finish gently in the oven with the mushrooms, keeping it juicy.

“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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