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Collops of Chicken with Macaroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and parmesan cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,846 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Collops of Chicken with Macaroni

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cold cooked chicken into thin slices, about the size of a quarter.

  2. Heat the chicken in a rich Bechamel sauce.

  3. Break the macaroni into 1-inch lengths and boil in salted water until tender.

  4. Drain the macaroni and mix with Parmesan cheese and a little Bechamel sauce.

  5. Serve the macaroni as a border, sprinkle with parsley, and pile the chicken in the center, garnished with strips of cooked red tongue.

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 + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,846 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,314 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Sauce + parmesan cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  4. Parmesan cheese + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, parmesan cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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