Why it works: Milk and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,399 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Fried Chicked
Ingredients
Directions
Clean, wash, and cut to pieces a couple of spring chickens ; soak in salt water more than one hour, wipe dry, season with pepper, and dredge with flour. Then fry in hot lard, until each piece is a nice brown on both sides. Take up, drain, and set aside in a hot, covered dish. Pour into the gravy left in the frying-pan- a cup of milk, half cream is better ; thicken with heaping spoonful of flour, and tablespoonful of butter ; cut pas- try, rolled thin in squares, or strips ; fry a nice brown, and lay on dish with chicken, and pour gravy over all. Serve. — Mrs. J. Keyser.
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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together29,399 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together26,984 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
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Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together21,449 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Cream and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 21,449 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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