Name: Chicken Fricassee
Ingredients: cold boiled or steamed fowl or turkey; white sauce; chopped parsley; strips of bacon

Why it works: Turkey and parsley work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 532 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Fricassee

Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven

Ingredients

cold boiled or steamed fowl or turkey
white sauce
chopped parsley
strips of bacon

Directions

Cut up the cold fowl or turkey.
Heat the meat in a steamer.
Prepare a thick white sauce with plenty of chopped parsley.
Arrange the meat on a dish and pour the sauce over it.
Garnish with rolled strips of bacon.

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.

Turkey + parsleytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together532 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Turkey + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together531 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).