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Mushrooms, Provincial

Sautéed mushrooms with oil, garlic, parsley, lemon, served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mushrooms, Provincial

Ingredients

Directions

Marinate

  1. Prepare the mushrooms by slicing them and placing them in a bowl.

  2. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, coarse sea salt, pepper, and mashed garlic to the mushrooms.

  3. Cover with buttered paper and let macerate in a cool place for 1 hour.

Cook and serve

  1. In an omelet pan, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

  2. Finely chop the mashed garlic and add it to the warmed oil.

  3. Add the mushrooms and toss over the heat until warmed through.

  4. Stir in chopped parsley and lemon juice, then serve on toast.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Form the main body of the dish and soften into tender, juicy pieces when warmed.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows as it cooks in the warm oil.
Olive oil
Carries flavor and moisture, helping the mushrooms warm and toss evenly.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, earthy mushrooms.

The step that matters

Warming the mushrooms. Mushrooms release water and can steam rather than brown if the pan is crowded or not hot enough. Tossing over steady heat until warmed through keeps them tender and evenly seasoned without turning them soggy.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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