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Chicken Quenelles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken Quenelles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin and bones from the chicken and pound the meat very fine.

  2. Mix the chopped salt pork with the chicken and rub through a sieve.

  3. In a saucepan, combine the stale bread crumbs and fresh milk, cooking over low heat while stirring until smooth.

  4. Mix the chicken with the cooked bread and milk, adding the white stock, lemon juice, onion juice, salt, and pepper.

  5. Add the egg yolks and fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

  6. Grease a pan with butter. Prepare a pot of boiling water.

  7. Dip one spoon in the boiling water, fill it with the mixture, then dip another spoon in hot water and transfer the mixture into it.

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. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, pork, egg, milk, bread, onion):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Pumpkinfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, pork, egg, milk, bread, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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