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Mock Chicken Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,336 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Mock Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the veal in a small quantity of water until tender, salting well while cooking.

  2. Allow the veal to cool in the cooking water.

  3. Drain the veal and remove all gristle and fat.

  4. Chop the veal and substitute it for all or part of the chicken.

  5. Prepare the salad with celery as you would for chicken salad.

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. Veal + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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