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Chicken, Veal, or Mutton Tea

A broth made from chicken, veal, or mutton simmered with optional pearl barley, rice, vermicelli, or semolina.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and barley work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 265 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken, Veal, or Mutton Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the meat and bones into small pieces.

  2. Place the meat in a saucepan and cover with water.

Simmer and serve

  1. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.

  2. Strain the broth and serve as tea or add optional ingredients for a nourishing soup.

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.

Explore the science

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 + barleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken, veal, or mutton
Provides the protein and flavour that dissolve into the broth as it simmers.
Water
Extracts flavour and gelatin from the meat and bones over a long, gentle simmer.

The step that matters

Simmering gently for 2 hours. A rolling boil makes the broth cloudy and greasy, while a gentle simmer keeps it clear and lets collagen and flavour slowly release from the bones.

“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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