Name: Chicken a LA King
Ingredients: tender young farm poultry; fresh mushrooms; golden cream sauce; toast or patty shells for serving

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,787 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Chicken a LA King

Ingredients

tender young farm poultry
fresh mushrooms
golden cream sauce
toast or patty shells for serving

Directions

Prepare the tender young poultry by cooking it until fully done.
Sauté the fresh mushrooms in a pan until tender.
Combine the cooked poultry and mushrooms with the golden cream sauce.
Serve the mixture on toast or in patty shells.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together4,500 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together4,480 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).