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Imitation Mushrooms

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,448 recipes. Both carry 2-heptenal, which smells green. The science ↓

Imitation Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Use a biscuit-forcer to push out the Italian meringue paste into small, long cork shapes and round drops on stiff paper.

  2. Sprinkle the shapes lightly with grated chocolate and dry them in a cool place.

  3. Stick two elongated pieces together to form the stalks of the mushrooms.

  4. Insert the narrow end of the stalks into the bottom of the drops to complete the mushrooms.

  5. Dip the broad end of the stalks in egg white, then in grated chocolate to mimic the dark mold on real mushrooms.

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. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

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