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Mushrooms on Toast

Sautéed mushrooms seasoned with cayenne, black pepper, and sea salt, served over buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Mushrooms on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the mushrooms

  1. Cook the mushrooms in a covered pan over low heat until tender.

  2. Place the cooked mushrooms on pieces of toast.

Brown the butter and finish

  1. In the same pan, add a large lump of butter and cook over medium heat until it begins to brown.

  2. Season with cayenne pepper, black pepper, and coarse sea salt, then pour the mixture over the 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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Soften when covered over low heat, releasing moisture that gives the topping a tender, juicy texture.
Butter
Browns to add nutty, toasty flavour and richness to the mushrooms.
Toast
Provides a crisp base that holds the mushrooms and absorbs the buttery juices.

The step that matters

Browning the butter. Butter can go from golden to burnt quickly. Medium heat and watching for the first colour change give nutty flavour without bitterness.

“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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