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Fowl Saute with Peas

A sautéed fowl dish with peas, butter, flour, stock, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fowl Saute with Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the fowl

  1. Cut the fowl into nice pieces.

  2. Melt the butter in a stewpan.

  3. Fry the fowl until nicely browned, seasoning with pepper, salt, and pounded mace.

  4. Dredge in the flour and shake the ingredients well.

Stew and serve

  1. Add the stock and peas, and stew until the peas are tender, about 20 minutes.

  2. Stir in the pounded sugar and serve, placing the chicken around the dish with the peas in the center.

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.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Pepper + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Pepper + macetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,257 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Butter + peastop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Remains of cold roast fowl
Provides the main body of the dish, reheated gently in the sauce.
Butter
Carries the frying heat and adds richness and browning to the fowl.
Flour
Coats the fowl and thickens the stock into a light sauce.
Green peas
Add sweetness and a tender texture as they stew in the sauce.

The step that matters

Dredge in the flour and shake the ingredients well. Flour must be evenly distributed over the pieces so it coats them rather than clumping. Uneven coating leads to lumps and a patchy sauce when the stock is added.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, flour, peas, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, flour, peas, sugar. 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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