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A meal comprising sliced meat, broth, stews, potatoes or rice, bread, milk, custard, fruit, and gingerbread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Finely cut the chicken, beef, or mutton.

  2. Prepare the broth and heat it.

  3. Make meat stews with rice.

  4. Bake potatoes or cook rice.

  5. Serve bread slices.

  6. Pour milk into a glass.

  7. Prepare custard-pudding or junket.

  8. Serve half an orange or a baked apple.

  9. Stew fruit or prunes.

  10. Cut gingerbread or cake into squares.

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 + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Adds moisture and richness, and provides protein for a soft, tender texture.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, rice, potato, bread, milk, junket):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, rice, potato, bread, milk, junket. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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