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Another Mushroom Sauce

A sauce made with small mushroom buttons, thickened tomato sauce, and rich cream, served with poultry or veal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Another Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the mushroom buttons carefully.

Make the sauce

  1. Add the mushrooms to the tomato sauce and cook until tender.

  2. Stir in the cream and bring to a boil.

Serve

  1. Serve with boiled poultry, breast of veal, or veal cutlets.

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. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. 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

What each ingredient does

Mushroom buttons
Provide the main texture and earthy flavor of the sauce as they soften in it.
Tomato sauce
Forms the base of the sauce and carries its body and acidity.
Rich cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the tomato's sharpness and smoothing the sauce.

The step that matters

Stir in the cream and bring to a boil. Cream can curdle or separate when boiled hard with acidic tomato. Keep the heat controlled once the cream is added so the sauce stays smooth.

“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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