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Grilled Mushrooms

A simple dish of mushrooms roasted with butter, pepper, salt, and stock, served on toasted gluten bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Grilled Mushrooms

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 the mushrooms

  1. Rinse, peel, and trim the mushrooms.

  2. Remove the stalks and place the mushrooms, upside down, on a small baking tin.

  3. Add scraps of butter, pepper, and salt to each mushroom.

  4. Pour the gravy or stock over the mushrooms.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about 8 minutes.

  2. Butter thin slices of gluten bread and heat them.

  3. Place a mushroom on each slice of bread and serve immediately.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish and release moisture and savory flavour as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the mushrooms brown and carry seasoning.
Gravy or stock
Adds moisture and savoury flavour while the mushrooms steam and bake.
Gluten bread
Provides a warm, sturdy base that holds each mushroom and soaks up the juices.

The step that matters

Baking the mushrooms. Mushrooms are mostly water. Too little heat or too long a bake lets them release liquid and turn soggy, while the gravy or stock needs enough heat to reduce into flavourful juices.

“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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