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
Substitute chicken, veal, or mutton for beef in the preparation.
In a saucepan, boil the meat in water for two hours.
Strain the broth.
Optionally, add pearl barley, rice, vermicelli, or semolina for extra nourishment.
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.
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Chicken + barleytop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together265 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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