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Squabs, Chicken, Etc

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Why it works: Squab and chicken work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Squabs, Chicken, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew or broil squabs and chickens.

  2. Select the most tender parts for young children.

  3. Minced fine white meat of roast chicken or turkey can be given.

  4. Broil partridge and pheasant, using the breast for serving.

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. Squab + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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