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Mushrooms with Mushroom Sauce

This dish is to be used cautiously, and only in cold weather, and where threatened with malignant troubles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,480 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mushrooms with Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the mushrooms by cleaning them thoroughly.

  2. Cook the mushrooms in a pan until tender.

  3. Serve the mushrooms with mushroom sauce poured over them.

  4. Decorate with three-cornered pieces of white bread toast.

  5. 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 + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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