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Stuffed mushrooms filled with a butter, ham, shallot, parsley mixture, baked and served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mushrooms Farcies

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. Peel and trim the mushrooms.

  2. Chop the trimmings.

Make the filling

  1. Cook the chopped trimmings in a saucepan with the butter, shallot, parsley, and ham for a few minutes.

  2. Put the mixture on top of each mushroom.

Bake and serve

  1. Place on a baking tin and bake at 400°F (200°C) for eight minutes.

  2. Serve on a small buttered slice of gluten bread, very hot.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

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

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

  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

Mushrooms
Form the base that holds the filling and softens as it bakes.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying the flavour of the filling and helping it brown.

The step that matters

Bake for only eight minutes. Mushrooms hold a lot of water, and overbaking lets them release it and go soggy, while the filling needs enough heat to become hot and savoury.

Swap the shallot

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

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Carrotfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits less well
  4. Potatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, ham, parsley, butter, pepper. 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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