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Chicken Broth

A clear chicken broth made with lean chicken, water, soaked rice or barley, milk, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Chicken Broth

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Boil the chicken in the water, keeping it covered, until it falls apart.

  2. Strain out the chicken.

  3. Add the soaked rice or barley.

  4. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring often.

Finish and serve

  1. Stir in the milk, salt, and pepper.

  2. Simmer for 5 more minutes.

  3. Serve hot with cream crackers.

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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Explore the science

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean chicken
Breaks down in the water to give the broth its meaty flavor.
Rice or barley
Adds body and thickness to the broth as it simmers.
Milk
Adds richness and a softer, creamier mouthfeel to the finished broth.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, milk, pepper):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, milk, pepper. 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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