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Chicken Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Chicken Salad

Why it works: Lettuce and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make round croquettes from shredded chicken, tongue, mushrooms, and truffles, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes until golden, let them cool, and cut in halves.

  3. Arrange the halves around a bed of finely shredded lettuce and endive.

  4. Season with salt and pepper, then drizzle with tarragon vinegar and cream salad dressing.

  5. Garnish with sliced spring onions.

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. Lettuce + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Endive + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lettuce + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

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

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

Swap the tarragon

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

  1. Tarragonthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Garlicfits less well

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

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