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Stewed Chicken and Dumplings

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Stewed Chicken and Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the chicken pieces and place them in a deep stew pan with 3 pints of water. Bring to a boil.

  2. In another saucepan, cook the carrot, turnip, and onion slowly for 30 minutes.

  3. Strain the vegetables and add them to the stew pan with the chicken. Mash the vegetables and rub them through the strainer into the stew.

  4. Skim 2 tablespoons of chicken fat from the stew and add it to the saucepan with the cooked vegetables.

  5. When hot, stir in 3 tablespoons of flour and simmer the stew until the chicken is tender, about 2 hours.

  6. Season with salt, pepper, and butter to taste.

  7. Ten minutes before serving, place the stew on the front of the stove and add the dumplings. Cook for 10 minutes.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Turnip + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, carrot, turnip, flour, pepper, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, carrot, turnip, flour, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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