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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chafing Dish Recipes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chicken Wiggles. —

  2. V*. cup cream % cup celery

  3. * 1 cup chicken (salmon or

  4. Scald the cream and milk in blazer over hot water, add egg yolks well beaten, butter and salt. Cook until it thick- ens, add chicken, cut in cubes, peas, which have been washed, drained, and celery cut in half-inch pieces. Cook until heated through and add nut meats. Serve hot on toast triangles. — Edna Burso, Worcester, Mass.

  5. Welsh Rarebit. —

  6. U cup grated cheese 1 teaspoon butter

  7. teaspoon salt Dash Slade’s Cayenne

  8. ' & teaspooh Slade’s 1 egg Well beaten

  9. Scald the rriilk in a double bdiler. Beat egg tiii light — hdd cheese, salt and mustard, flour and cayenne. Pour on scalded milk, return to the double boilsr, cook until it

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  11. A simple shake flavors the cake, when you use Slade’s Powdered Nutmeg in those sifting- top tins.

  12. thickens, add butter. Serve hot on toast points or on zephyrettes. — Edna Burso, Worcester, Mass.

  13. Welsh Rarebit. —

  14. Ms cup cream or milk % teaspoon Worcester-

  15. Vl teaspoon salt shire Sauce

  16. Few grains Slade’s 3 cups grated cheese

  17. Melt the butter in a double boiler^ add flour mixed with salt, mustard and cayenne) stir until smooth, then cream or- milk. Cook eight to ten minutes, add cheese, stir until melted, then Worcestershire Sauce. Serve on crackers. — Mary E. Ditson, Allston, Mass.

  18. Slade’s Mustard will be found to be specially pleasing to the palate.

  19. Baked Halibut. — Buy a thick slice of halibut, about 2 pounds. Wash it and lay it in a dripping pan on strips of salt pork and onion. Season with salt and Slade’s Pepper and grate over it one small onion and the juice of half a lemon. Then cover with buttered bread crumbs and bake about one hour.

  20. It is especially good when served with Hollandaise sauce. — Miss Alice M. Williams, Lynn, Mass.

  21. Deviled Scallops. — Pour boiling water over one pint of scallops and let them stand three minutes, drain and cut into quarters. Melt two tablespoons butter, add three table- spoons flour, Ms teaspoon salt and a generous seasoning of Slade’s Cayenne. Blend with the butter until smooth; add one tablespoon of lemon juice, % cup thin cream and stir until it boils, boil three minutes. Remove from the fire and add the yolks of two eggs, beaten smooth and the scallops. Put into buttered shells or ramekins, cover with buttered crumbs and bake until brown. — Mrs. Mary L. Wade, Atlantic, Mass.

  22. Fillets of Halibut, a la Slade. — Wipe two slices halibut, each weighing one pound, and cut in eight fillets. Roll each fillet separately, and fasten with a small wooden ske- wer. Arrange six thin slices fat salt pork (two and one- half inches square) in a. pan, cover with one small onion thinly sliced and add a bit of bay leaf. Cream three table- spoons butter and add three tablespoons flour. Put fillets in pan, mask with cream butter, sprinkle with buttered cracker crumbs and arrange three parallel strips of fat salt pork on each. Cover with buttered paper for the first eight minutes of the baking; then remove the paper to brown crumbs and pork. Remove to a hot platter and pour around the following sauce:

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  24. Imitations are never as good as the genuine. Slade’s Flavoring Extracts are genuine fruit flavors.

  25. Drain off fat remaining in pan and strain; there should be three tablespoons. Add three tablespoons flour and stir until well blended, then pour on gradually, while stir- ring constanly one and one-half cups rich milk or thin cream. Bring to the boiling point, season with salt and Slade’s Pepper and just before serving add one tablespoon butter, bit by bit. — Fannie Merritt Farmer, Boston, Mass.

  26. Fish With Green Peppers. —

  27. 1% cups cold cooked fish % slice onion, or flavor to 1 cup white sauce - taste with Slade’s Ex-

  28. % small green pepper tract Onion

  29. Salt and Slade’s Pepper'

  30. Cut a slice from stem end of pepper, remove every seed and parboil peppers fifteen minutes. Make a white sauce with 1 cup milk, 2 tablesoonfuls butter, 2 tablespoonfuls flour, bit of bay leaf, sprig of parsley, salt and Slade’s Pep- per to taste, scalding the milk with the parsley and bay leaf, cook the onion finely chopped in the butter 3 minutes, or flavor with Slade’s Onion Extract to taste; add the flour when well mingled, the milk, salt, and Slade’s Pepper, when thickened and smooth add the fish broken into flakes and the green peppers cut into narrow strips; heat thoroguhly, and serve with brown bread sandwiches.

  31. This is easily prepared in the chafing dish, having the green peppers previously cooked. — Katherine Parsons, Lynn, Mass.

  32. Much of the so-called Onion Extract is made artificially from chemical ethers; Slade’s is the true extract of Onions.

  33. Scalloped Fish. —

  34. 2 cups cold fish; cod, haddock or halibut 1% cups milk 1 slice onion Blade of Mace Bit of Bay Leaf

  35. 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour % teaspoon salt % teaspoon Slade’s Pep per

  36. % cup buttered crumbs

  37. Scald the milk with onion, mace and bay leaf. Remove seasonings. Melt the butter, add flour, salt and pepper, then gradually the milk. Boil three minutes. Put one-half the fish in a buttered baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and pour over one-half the sauce. Repeat, cover with but- tered crumbs and bake until the crumbs are brown in a hot oven. — M. E. Ditson, Allston, Mass.

  38. Scalloped Scallops. — Wash and pick over one pint scal- lops. Mix one cup cracker crumbs and one-half cup soft bread crumbs and add one-half cup melted butter. Put a layer of crumbs in a buttered baking dish, cover with a layer of scallops, season with salt and Slade's Pepper and add

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  40. It is your money you are spending. Why not insist upon having Slade’s Extracts?

  41. three tablespoons cream. Repeat, cover with remaining crumbs and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. — Fannie Merritt Farmer, Boston, Mass.

  42. There is a great difference in flavor between Slade’s Pep- per and the common pepper frequently sold.

  43. Savory Finnin Haddie. — Soak Finnin Haddie in milk to cover one hour. Bake thirty minutes and separate into flakes; there should be two cups. Cook one-half tablespoon finely chopped onion and three and one-half tablespoons finely chopped green peppers in one-fourth cup butter five minutes, stirring constantly. Add one teaspoon salt, one- half teaspoon Slade’s Paprika and a few grains Slade’s Pep- per and cook three minutes; then add four tablespoons flour and stir until well blended. Pour on gradually; while stir- ring constantly one cup each milk and cream. Bring to the boiling point and add Finnin Haddie. Turn into a buttered dish, cover with buttered crumbs and bake until the crumbs are brown. — Fannie Merritt Farmer, Boston, Mass.

  44. Tartar Sauce for Fried Clams, Scallops and all kinds of Fish. — Mix some finely chopped pickles or olives or a mix- ture of both with Slade’s Salad Cream. Another combina- tion preferred by some is finely chopped pickles, capers and parsley.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

2036Calories
172 gProtein
80 gFat
150 gCarbs

Counts 23 of 27 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 23 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Salmon100g cooked208
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Halibut100g cooked140
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0
Macenot 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 D. & L. Slade Co. 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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Peas + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

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

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 peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg, chicken, flour, cream, cheese, scallop):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, chicken, flour, cream, cheese, scallop. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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