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Chicken Timbales

Chicken Timbales are steamed chicken and macaroni cakes served with truffle sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce 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 ↓

Chicken Timbales

12 timbale moulds

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Pound the white meat of the chicken and pass it through a sieve.

  2. Add ½ cup of cream and the beaten egg whites, then season with pepper and salt.

  3. Whip the mixture together for 10 minutes.

Line and fill the moulds

  1. Boil the macaroni in milk seasoned with salt, then line 12 timbale moulds with it.

  2. Fill the moulds with the chicken mixture and steam for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Carefully turn out the timbales onto a hot dish and serve with truffle sauce.

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 + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

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

  3. Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together527 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

White meat of chicken
Forms the main body of the timbales, giving them their structure once cooked.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the timbale mixture soft and tender.
Egg whites
Set when heated, binding the mixture so the timbales hold their shape.
Macaroni
Forms the outer lining of each timbale, giving a shaped edge around the filling.

The step that matters

Whipping the mixture. Whipping for the full time traps air and helps the egg whites and chicken set into a light, even texture. Under-whipping leaves a dense result, while over-handling can make the egg whites weep or the mixture tough once steamed.

“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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