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Fillets of cold braised chicken masked with mayonnaise, served on shredded lettuce with sardines, anchovies, eggs and garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 678 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Chicked, Mayonnaise of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Fillet the cold braised chicken as described in recipe No. 162.

  2. Mask the chicken with ½ pint of Mayonnaise Sauce.

Arrange the dish

  1. Cut the white Cos lettuce into 2-inch pieces.

  2. Arrange the lettuce pieces in an oval shape on a flat dish.

  3. Top the lettuce with sardines, anchovies, and quartered hard-boiled eggs.

  4. Mask the entire dish with the remaining Mayonnaise Sauce.

  5. Decorate the surface with tomatoes, cucumber, and beetroot cut into various shapes.

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. Lettuce + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Lettuce + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together345 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  5. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise sauce
Coats the chicken and dish, adding richness, moisture and a creamy texture.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add a firm, mild, creamy texture and body to the salad.
White cos lettuce
Forms the crisp base that holds the other components.
Anchovies
Contribute a salty, savoury depth of flavour.

The step that matters

Mask the chicken with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is an emulsion that can separate or become oily if it is too warm or overworked. Using it cold and evenly spread keeps the coating smooth and stable.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, lettuce, egg, cucumber, beetroot):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, lettuce, egg, cucumber, beetroot. 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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