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Broiled Mushrooms

Mushrooms are seasoned, buttered, and broiled, then served on toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Broiled Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Select mushrooms and remove the stalks near the top.

  2. Rinse the caps and peel them.

  3. Place mushrooms gill side up on a platter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and baste with melted butter.

  4. Set aside for 30 minutes.

  5. Prepare toast, butter it, and keep warm.

Broil and serve

  1. Arrange mushrooms in a light wire broiler without breaking them.

  2. Cook over a brisk fire, starting with the gill side facing the heat until warmed, then turn and broil with the top down.

  3. Use a spoon to lift mushrooms from the broiler, place them on the hot toast, pour melted butter over them, and serve immediately.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Main ingredient; the caps soften and brown under direct heat while staying moist.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness and helps keep the mushrooms moist while they broil.
Bread
Serves as a warm, absorbent base that soaks up the mushroom juices and butter.

The step that matters

Broiling the mushrooms. Mushrooms are mostly water. A brisk, direct heat drives off moisture and browns the surface, while too slow a heat lets them steam and turn soggy. Turning them gill side first lets the cap cook evenly without tearing.

“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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