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Baked Chickens

A baked chicken served with potatoes, corn, tomato, plum sauce, and peaches.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Baked Chickens

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Prepare the chicken by cleaning and seasoning it.

Cook

  1. Place the chicken in a baking dish and roast until fully cooked.

  2. Boil the potatoes until tender.

  3. Cook the green corn until heated through.

Serve

  1. Serve the chicken with tomatoes and plum sauce.

  2. Add sliced peaches, ice cream, and cake for dessert.

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. Plum + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Tomato + plumtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole chicken
Provides the main protein, which cooks through in the oven.
Potatoes
Become tender when boiled, adding starch and bulk to the plate.
Green corn
Adds sweetness and a tender texture when heated through.
Plum sauce
Adds sweetness and fruity acidity to the chicken.
Sliced peaches
Add sweet, juicy fruit flavor to the dessert.

The step that matters

Roasting the chicken until fully cooked. Poultry must reach a safe internal temperature throughout. The record gives no internal temperature or time, so check the thickest part of the meat with a food thermometer rather than relying on appearance alone.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, potato, corn, tomato, plum, sauce, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, potato, corn, tomato, plum, sauce, cream. 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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