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Chicken Patties

Chicken patties made by filling puff pastry rings with minced boiled chicken and white sauce, then baking until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Chicken Patties

Why it works: Chicken and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,513 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Chicken Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the pastry

  1. Prepare a rich puff pastry.

  2. Cut out rounds with a medium cookie cutter and smaller circles from the center to create rings.

Bake and glaze

  1. Bake the rings in a 400°F (200°C) oven until light brown.

  2. Brush the baked rings with the beaten egg.

  3. Return the rings to the oven for 1 minute to glaze.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the crusts with well-seasoned minced boiled chicken mixed with white sauce.

  2. Serve hot.

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.

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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. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the flaky, layered crust that holds the filling.
Beaten egg
Brushed on the baked rings to give a glossy, browned finish.
Minced boiled chicken
Provides the savoury, moist filling for the patties.
White sauce (made from chicken broth)
Adds moisture and binds the chicken into a creamy filling.

The step that matters

Baking the rings until light brown. Puff pastry rises through steam released by layered butter in a hot oven. If the oven is too cool, the layers won't separate and the rings turn out dense; if overbaked, they dry out and darken before the centre is set.

“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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