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Flaps or Large Mushrooms

Grilled large mushrooms marinated in oil, salt, pepper, garlic, topped with white sauce and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Flaps or Large Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wipe the mushrooms dry and cut out the stalks.

  2. Soak the mushrooms in a mixture of oil, coarse sea salt, black pepper, and chopped garlic for 1 hour.

Grill and serve

  1. Place the mushrooms on a grill, stalk side down.

  2. Turn the mushrooms and brush the gills with white sauce.

  3. Once cooked, carefully remove the mushrooms to retain their juice.

  4. Serve with the soaking mixture and a drizzle of lemon juice.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

  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

Large mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish, absorbing the soaking mixture and softening as they grill.
Oil
Carries the garlic and seasonings into the mushrooms and helps prevent sticking on the grill.
White sauce
Brushed onto the gills to add creaminess and richness against the smoky grilled flavour.
Chopped garlic
Adds aroma and pungency to the soaking mixture as it flavours the mushrooms.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity at the end to brighten the rich, savoury mushrooms.

The step that matters

Carefully remove the mushrooms once cooked. Mushrooms release liquid as they cook and their structure softens, so lifting them gently keeps them intact and retains the juice that makes them moist.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, pepper, garlic, sauce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, garlic, sauce. 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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