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Chicken Sauce

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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chicken Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put butter the size of an egg into a sauce pan, when it bubbles add a tablesj)Oonf ul of flour ; cook, add a pint of boiling water, when smooth take from the lire, add the beat en yolks of two eggs and a few drops of lemon juice.

  2. TOMATO SAUCE FOR CHOPS AND CROQUETTS. One can of Old Reliable tomatoes, half of an onion, six or ei-^lil cloves. Boil half an hour, then take two tablespoon- fuls o. butter and two of flour. Put on the fire and siir un- til blown, then mix with other ingredients and let all boil up once. Strain through a sieve.

  3. BREAD SAUCE FOR GAME. Two cupfuls of milk, one of dried bread crumbs, a quar- ter of aii onion, two tablespoonfuls of butter, and salt and pepper. Dry the bread in a warm oven, and roll into rather ccaise crumbs. Sift, and put the fine crumbs which come till ougli .-ind which make about one-third of a cupful on to boil with the milk and onion. Boil ten or fifteen minutes and add a tablespoon of butter and the seasoning. Skim out the onion. Fry the coarse crumbs a light brown in the remaining butter, which must be very hot before they are put iu. Stir over a hot oven two minutes, being watchful not to burn. Cover the breast of the x'oasted birds with

  4. Use Mansfield's Pure Spices.

  5. 18 these and serve the sauce poured around the birds or in a gravy dish.

  6. DEAWN BUTTER SAUCE. Three ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, half a pint of water, little salt and pepper. Put two ounces of the butter in a pan ; when it bubbles, add flour ; stir it well with a wire egg- whisk, do not let it color ; then add the water. Put it through a sieve and add the other ounce of butter cut in pieces. Add three hard boiled eggs chopped. Serve with meat or fish.

  7. MINT SAUCE. Mix one tablespoonful of white sugar to one-half a cup of vinegar ; add mint chopped fine and half a teaspoonf ul of salt. Serve with roast lamb or mutton.

  8. CREAM SAUCE NO. 1. One pint of hot cream, or milk, two even tablespoonfuls of butter, two heaping tablespoonfuls of corn starch, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half a saltspoonful of white pepper, aue-half a teaspoonful of celery salt, a few grains of cayenne pepper. Scald the cream, melt the butter in a granite sauce pan. when bubbling add the dry corn starch, stir until well mixed, add one third the cream and stir as it boils and thick- ens ; add more cream and boil again ; when smooth add the remainder of the cream and seasoning.

  9. Mix with the chicken in making croquettes. CREAM SAUCE TO BE SERVED WITH CROQUETTES. One pint of cream or milk, one heaping tablespoon of butter, two heaping tablespoons flour, one-half teaspoon salt one-half saltspoon of pepper. Make same as cream sauce No. 1.

  10. MUSHROOM SAUCE. One can of mushrooms, two cups of soup stock, two tablespoons of flour, four tablespoons of butter, salt and pepper. Melt the butter ; add the flour and stir until a dark brown ; add the stock gradually. When it boils add the liq- uor from the mushrooms ; season and simmer twenty minutes. Skim oif the fat that rises; add the mushrooms and simmer five minutes. Serve with beef steak.

  11. Butter, Cheese and Eggs a Specialty

  12. If care is taken in j^icking and dressing fowls and birds, there is no need of washing them.

  13. EOAST TURKEY. First dress it. Season well. Sprinkle pepper and salt on the inside. Stuff it and tie well in shaj)e. Wet the skin in water and sprinkle with pepper, salt and flour. Pour a little boiling water in the j)an. Baste it often and cook three or four hours according to size.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

911Calories
29 gProtein
32 gFat
127 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot 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 Mansfield, W. H., & co., Putnam, Conn., pub. [from old catalog]. 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.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

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

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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

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