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Chicken Toast

Chicken Toast is bread topped with a chicken mixture and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Remove meat from chicken bones and chop it finely.

  2. Simmer bones and trimmings for at least 1 hour, then strain to obtain broth.

Make the topping

  1. In a bowl, combine 1 cup of broth, 1 cup of milk or cream, beaten eggs, and salt.

  2. Moisten the minced chicken with some of the mixture.

  3. Heat the mixture in a small saucepan.

Soak and fry the bread

  1. Place bread slices in a deep basin.

  2. Pour the sauce over them.

  3. Fry the bread in butter until golden.

  4. Spread each slice with the heated chicken mixture.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard-like mixture and help bind the soaked bread and chicken together.
Milk or sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving the soaking liquid a soft, tender texture.
Chicken meat
Provides the savory main flavor and the substance of the topping.
Bread
Absorbs the liquid and then browns in butter, giving a crisp exterior and soft interior.
Butter
Fries the bread, adding fat for golden browning and rich flavor.

The step that matters

Fry the bread in butter until golden. Bread soaked in egg and milk browns quickly and can burn before the centre heats through. Moderate heat lets the eggs set and the surface turn golden evenly.

“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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