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Mushrooms for Above Entree

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Mushrooms for Above Entree

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the mushrooms with a flannel and a little salt.

  2. Peel the mushrooms and cut off the stalks.

  3. Soak the mushrooms in lemon juice and water for a few minutes to turn them white.

  4. Cook the mushrooms in wine for 20 minutes.

  5. Drain the mushrooms and let them cool.

  6. Dip each mushroom in liquid aspic jelly.

  7. Once set, arrange the quails on a dish in a circle with a mushroom between each.

  8. Decorate the base with chopped aspic and fill the center with tomato salad or Russian salad.

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 + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Mushroom + winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  3. Wine + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,759 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, wine, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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