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Mushrooms, Baked

Mushrooms baked with butter, pepper, and salt, served with their own gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Mushrooms, Baked

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, Baked

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

  1. Wipe the mushrooms with a clean cloth.

  2. Peel the mushrooms.

  3. Cut off the stalks close to the crowns.

  4. If necessary, wash the mushrooms lightly in salted water. Drain the mushrooms well.

  5. Butter a baking dish.

Bake

  1. Lay the mushrooms in the dish, dark sides up, edge to edge.

  2. Place a small piece of butter on each mushroom.

  3. Sprinkle pepper and salt over the mushrooms.

  4. Cover the mushrooms with a well-buttered paper.

  5. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for about 20 minutes, or longer if large.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot dish, piling the mushrooms in the center and pouring the collected gravy around them.

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
Form the main body of the dish, softening and releasing juices that collect as gravy.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, helping the mushrooms brown gently and stay tender in the oven.

The step that matters

Drain the mushrooms well. Mushrooms hold water that leaches out when heated. Excess moisture left on the caps would dilute the collected gravy and slow browning, so draining thoroughly keeps the juices concentrated.

“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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