Name: Another Way to Stew Chickens with Peas
Ingredients: chickens, cut into pieces; veal stock; peas

Why it works: Chicken and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,243 recipes. Both carry 3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Another Way to Stew Chickens with Peas

Ingredients

chickens, cut into pieces
veal stock
peas

Directions

Blanch the chicken pieces and drain them well.
Place the chicken in a stewpan with a little veal stock.
Stew the chicken until tender and the liquid is almost reduced.
Serve the chicken on a dish and pour the peas sauce over it.

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.

Chicken + vealtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,243 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).
Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,528 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Veal + peastop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together644 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).