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Stewed Mushrooms on Toast

A dish of stewed mushrooms served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Stewed Mushrooms on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the mushrooms into equal-sized pieces.

  2. Place mushrooms in a covered saucepan.

  3. Add butter to the mushrooms.

Stew and serve

  1. Stew slowly for 20 minutes.

  2. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Serve the mushrooms on toast.

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. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Provide the main body and moisture that softens and releases juices as they stew.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour as the mushrooms cook gently.

The step that matters

Stew slowly for 20 minutes. Mushrooms are mostly water. Covered, slow stewing lets them release and reabsorb their juices and soften evenly, while a hotter pan would brown or dry them unevenly before they become tender.

“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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