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Mushroom Cutlets

Mushroom cutlets are fried patties made from mushrooms, onions, mashed potatoes, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mushroom Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel and chop the mushrooms and onion.

  2. Fry the mushrooms and onion in 1 oz of butter until soft.

  3. In a bowl, mix the mushrooms, onion, bread crumbs, 1 beaten egg, parsley, herbs, pepper, and salt.

  4. If needed, add a little milk to form a paste.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into cutlets.

  2. Dip the cutlets in the remaining beaten egg.

  3. Fry the cutlets in the rest of the butter until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Provide the main bulk and moisture of the cutlets, softened by frying first.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and give the dipped coating a golden set when fried.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the cutlets body and a crisp, browned outside.
Mashed potatoes
Add starch and softness that help the mixture hold its shape.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the cutlets brown during frying.

The step that matters

Fry the mushrooms and onion until soft. Mushrooms hold a lot of water. Cooking them down before mixing drives off moisture, so the cutlets hold their shape and do not turn soggy or fall apart when fried.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, potato, bread, egg, butter, milk, parsley):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, potato, bread, egg, butter, milk, parsley. 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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