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A breakfast meal of roasted chicken served with ale, tea, bread, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast the chicken until fully cooked.

  2. Serve with a pint of strong ale.

  3. Brew two cups of tea.

  4. Serve with slices of bread and butter.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  3. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

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

  4. Tea + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + teatop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 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
Provides the main protein; roasting browns the skin and cooks the meat through.
Strong ale
Adds malty, bitter flavour to the meal.
Tea
Gives a warm, mildly astringent drink that balances the rich food.
Bread
Adds a plain starchy base that soaks up juices and butter.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, melting into the warm bread.

The step that matters

Roast the chicken until fully cooked. Poultry must be cooked all the way through, because undercooked chicken can carry harmful bacteria. Heat needs to reach the thickest parts, such as the thigh and breast centre, so the meat is safe to eat.

“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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