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Chicken Coxsomme

A clear chicken broth made by boiling a whole chicken with mace or celery and optional onion, served hot or chilled as a jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Coxsomme

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Boil the cleaned chicken in water.

  2. Add mace or celery and onion if desired.

  3. Boil until the meat separates from the bones.

Finish and serve

  1. Strain the broth and season with salt.

  2. Let it cool and remove the fat.

  3. Serve hot or chilled as jelly.

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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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 + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  2. Mace + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  3. Chicken + macetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole chicken
Provides the meat and bones that release flavour and body into the broth as it simmers.
Mace or celery
Adds a subtle aromatic flavour to the broth.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mace):

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Carrotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mace. 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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