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Chicken Salad

Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook a chicken or fowl until tender in boiling water enough to cover, with a tablespoonful of salt, six peppercorns, one clove, a small bay leaf, one onion, several stalks of celery, or two or three of the roots. Remove from liquid and when cold cut the meat in half-inch pieces. (Save the liquid and bones and add to your soup stock. Cut the celery in half-inch pieces using half as much celery as meat. One-half cup of walnuts or olives cut in small pieces and added to two cups of the chicken and one of celery is an improvement.

  2. 198 ROCKY MOUNTAIN COOK BOOK.

  3. Marinate the chicken and celery one hour before serving, drain off any marinate that is left in the dish, mix the nuts or olives or both, with the celery and chicken. Arrange in a salad dish, first mixing a part of the mayonnaise dressing with the salad. Cover the top with mayonnaise, garnish with celery leaves, olives, lettuce or hard-boiled eggs sliced. In the summer, when celery is out of season, cucumber cut in cubes can be used in place of it. Garnish with lettuce or watercress.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

242Calories
33 gProtein
7 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Walnut + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Clove + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Walnut + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + chickentop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, chicken, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, chicken, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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