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Creamy Mushroom Soup with Blue Cheese Toasts - Hacked Recipe

try adding some balsamic next time.a dash of cayenne is nice-just don't over do it.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 cups

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + blue cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Thyme + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sherry + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, sherry, garlic, thyme, mushroom, cream):

  1. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Plumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, sherry, garlic, thyme, mushroom, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).