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Breaded Chicken

Breaded chicken pieces baked with butter, cream, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Breaded Chicken

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Breaded Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chicken

  1. Cut the young chickens into pieces as for fricassee.

  2. Dip each piece in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs or rolled crackers.

  3. Season with pepper, coarse sea salt, and minced parsley.

Bake

  1. Place the pieces in a baking pan and top each with a lump of butter.

  2. Add ½ cup hot water and bake at 300°F (150°C), basting often.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Once cooked, transfer to a warm platter.

  2. In the pan, pour in 1 cup cream or rich milk and 1 cup bread crumbs.

  3. Stir well until cooked, then pour over the chicken.

  4. Serve while hot.

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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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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Young chickens
The main protein, cut into pieces that cook through in the oven.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the chicken pieces.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns in the oven around the chicken.
Cream or rich milk
Adds fat and richness, thickening with the crumbs into a creamy sauce.

The step that matters

Basting often during baking. Regular basting with the pan liquid keeps the coating and meat moist while the surface browns, preventing the chicken from drying out at a low oven temperature.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg, bread, pepper, cream):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, bread, pepper, cream. 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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