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To Saute Chicken

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Why it works: Cream and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 21,449 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

To Saute Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut in pieces ready for serving, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and dredge with flour. Put one tablespoon fat in spider and let it get smoking hot. Lay chicken in care- fully and cook a golden brown. When done remove chicken. Put a tablespoon flour into the spider, stir, add one cup cream or rich milk. When it thickens season and serve in gravy bowl or over chicken. Care must be used not to burn.

By Mary Elizabeth Lyles Wilson (1860–1924). 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned 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.

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

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