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Mushrooms on Toast

Sautéed mushrooms seasoned with salt and pepper served on buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Mushrooms on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the mushrooms.

  2. Trim the stalks.

  3. Season the mushrooms with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  4. Brush the mushrooms with warm butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Grill the mushrooms over a clear fire or fry them in a pan with a little hot butter.

  2. Arrange the mushrooms neatly on the toast and serve 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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Their moisture cooks off and their flesh browns and softens, forming the main topping.
Butter
Adds fat that carries flavour, helps browning, and gives a rich finish to the mushrooms.

The step that matters

Grill or fry the mushrooms until browned. Mushrooms release a lot of water as they heat. Cooking over a hot fire or in a hot pan lets that moisture evaporate so the surface browns instead of steaming, which concentrates flavour.

“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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