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Timbales of Chicken

A dish of minced chicken baked in a mould with stock, butter, flour, cream, mushrooms, and spices, served with a mushroom cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.) · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Timbales of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Make the timbales

  1. Mince the white meat of the chicken.

  2. Add salt, pepper, onion juice, parsley, flour, beaten egg white, mushrooms, ¾ cup stock, and 1 cup cream; mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a buttered mould or moulds and steam for about one hour.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. For the sauce, combine one cup cream, 1¼ cup stock made from boiled bones of chicken and dark meat, half cup mushrooms, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons butter, and 1 cup milk.

  2. Into the stock, add the milk, flour, butter, and mushrooms; cook for about 15 minutes.

  3. Add the remaining cream to the sauce.

  4. Serve the chicken timbales with the sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1074Calories
63 gProtein
36 gFat
123 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
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 Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  5. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Beaten stiff, it gives the minced chicken mixture lift and a light, set texture when steamed.
Flour
Thickens the mixture and the sauce so they hold their shape and body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the sauce, carrying flavour and smoothing its texture.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the timbales a tender texture and the sauce a silky body.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to both the timbale mixture and the sauce.

The step that matters

Steaming the timbales. Steam gently and for the full time so the egg white and flour set the mixture into a firm but tender custard-like texture. Too much heat can make it rubbery or cause it to weep.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, cream, onion, mushroom, chicken, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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