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Mushroom Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mushroom Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line shallow patty pans with pastry and place a small piece of buttered paper in each.

  3. Fill the pans with uncooked rice and bake until pale brown.

  4. Bake small pieces of pastry shaped like mushroom stalks.

  5. Remove the rice and return the pastry to the oven to dry.

  6. Once cooled, add a small teaspoon of raspberry jam to each pastry.

  7. Fill with sweetened and flavored whipped cream.

  8. Dust with grated chocolate and insert a pastry stalk.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together457 recipes

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

  4. Rice + raspberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, butter, rice, chocolate):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Strawberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter, rice, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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