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Mushrooms, Baked

Baked mushrooms seasoned with butter and pepper, served hot with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Clean the mushrooms and remove the stalks.

  2. Simmer the mushrooms gently for about 10 minutes until tender.

Bake

  1. Place the mushrooms in a baking dish.

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

  3. Sprinkle pepper over the mushrooms.

  4. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 20 minutes, or longer for larger mushrooms.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot dish.

  2. Pile the mushrooms in the center.

  3. Pour gravy around the mushrooms.

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 and release moisture that softens during simmering and baking.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour over the mushrooms and helping them brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Mushrooms hold a lot of water. A gentle simmer softens them and draws out some moisture before baking, so they cook through without becoming soggy or rubbery in the oven. Boiling hard can break them apart.

“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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