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Chicken Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Chicken Salad

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make round croquettes from shredded chicken, tongue, mushrooms, and truffles.

  2. Bread and fry the croquettes until golden, then let them cool.

  3. Cut the croquettes in halves and arrange them around a bed of shredded lettuce and endive.

  4. In a bowl, mix equal parts of diced chicken and white celery, then season with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  5. Dress the mixture with sliced hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise.

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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Explore the science

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, truffle, bread, vinegar, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, truffle, bread, vinegar, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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