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Escalloped Chicken

A baked chicken dish with cream, flour, broth, mushrooms, and crushed crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Escalloped Chicken

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Escalloped Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the sauce

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a saucepan, thicken the cream with flour over medium heat.

  3. Add the chicken broth, salt, and pepper to the cream mixture.

Assemble and bake

  1. In a baking dish, layer the shredded chicken, crushed crackers, and mushrooms.

  2. Pour the cream mixture over the layers.

  3. Bake for 30 minutes and serve hot.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  3. Cream + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Flour + mushroomtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Thickened with flour to form a smooth, rich sauce that binds the dish.
Flour
Thickens the cream into a sauce by swelling and gelatinizing with heat.
Chicken broth
Adds liquid and savory flavor, loosening the sauce so it coats the layers.
Soda crackers
Crushed crackers add starch and crumb texture to the layered casserole.
Chicken
Provides the main protein and body of the dish.

The step that matters

Thickening the cream with flour. Flour must be cooked into the cream over medium heat and stirred so it dissolves without lumps; raw flour tastes pasty and the sauce will not thicken evenly before the broth is added.

“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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