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Mushroom Toast

A toasted bread topped with sautéed mushrooms in gravy or stock, optionally finished with sauce and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Mushroom Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Clean and chop the mushrooms.

  2. In a skillet, melt the butter and cook the mushrooms until tender.

  3. Add gravy or thickened stock and season with salt.

  4. Make the mixture thick like a puree or leave it slightly runny.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread butter on the bread and top with the mushroom mixture.

  2. If desired, pour brown or white sauce over the mushrooms.

  3. Saturate the toast with a mixture of boiling cream and sauce before serving.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 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
Provide the main body and savoury flavour of the topping as they soften and release moisture.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the mushrooms brown and soften in the pan.
Gravy or thickened stock
Adds liquid and savour, and thickens the mushrooms into a spreadable topping.
Bread
Acts as the base that soaks up the topping and sauce.

The step that matters

Saturate the toast with boiling cream and sauce. Pouring boiling liquid over bread softens it quickly, so it must be done just before serving or the toast turns soggy.

“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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