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Chicken Pie with Oysters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Chicken Pie with Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the chicken and oysters for the pie.

  2. Cook the potatoes, salsify, and dried Lima beans separately.

  3. Assemble the pie with chicken and oysters.

  4. Serve with roast potatoes, lobster salad, currant jelly, orange pudding, and fruit cake.

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 + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Potato + lima beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Oyster + lobstertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Chicken + lima beanstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, oyster, potato, lima beans, lobster, orange):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, oyster, potato, lima beans, lobster, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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