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Broiled Mushrooms

Mushrooms are seasoned, marinated, broiled, and served on buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Broiled Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the mushrooms.

  2. Cut off the stems close to the gill.

  3. Wash the mushrooms in slightly acidulated water.

  4. Drain the mushrooms on a clean towel.

Season and rest

  1. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper.

  2. Squeeze a little lemon juice over the mushrooms.

  3. Pour olive oil on top of the mushrooms.

  4. Cover the mushrooms with oil paper.

  5. Set the covered mushrooms aside for an hour.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the mushrooms over a hot fire.

  2. Arrange the mushrooms on slices of buttered toast.

  3. Serve the mushrooms very hot under a glass cover.

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. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Large open mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish and soften into a tender, juicy texture when broiled.
Olive oil
Carries heat and moisture across the mushroom surface, helping it brown and keeping it from drying out.
Lemon juice
Adds a bright acidity that balances the rich mushroom and oil flavour.
Buttered toast
Gives a crisp, rich base that soaks up the mushroom juices.

The step that matters

Broil the mushrooms over a hot fire. Mushrooms are mostly water. High direct heat drives off surface moisture so they brown and concentrate flavour instead of steaming in their own juice.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, olive. 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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