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Chicken Stew with Dumplings

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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Chicken Stew with Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. An old chicken is the best. Have it cut in four pieces, and make the same as beef stew. (See Dumplings, under Beef Stew.)

  2. CHICKEN CURRY (Mrs. Lincoln).

  3. Cut the chicken at the joints, and remove the breast bone, wipe, season with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and brown in hot butter. Put in a stew pan. Fry one large onion, cut in thin slices, in the butter left in the pan till colored, not browned. Mix one large tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of

  4. POULTRY. 101

  5. sugar and one teaspoonful of curry powder, and brown them in the butter. Add slowly one cup of water or stock and one cup of strained tomatoes, or one sour apple chopped, and salt and pepper to taste. Pour this sauce over the chicken and simmer one hour or until tender. Add one cup of hot milk or cream. Boil one minute longer and serve with a border of boiled rice. Rabbit, veal and lamb may be curried in the same way.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

780Calories
24 gProtein
10 gFat
150 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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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. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Tomato + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together548 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, onion, flour, tomato, pepper):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, onion, flour, tomato, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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