Name: Chicken Patties
Ingredients: ½ pint cream; ½ pint cold chicken

Why it works: Cream and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,241 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chicken Patties

Ingredients

½ pint cream
½ pint cold chicken

Directions

Make the filling

Combine the cream and cold chicken in a saucepan.
Boil for four minutes.

Serve

Fill the shells with the mixture and serve.

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.

Cream + chickentop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,241 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream: Adds richness and moisture, helping bind the chicken into a creamy filling.
Cold chicken: Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the filling.

“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.