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Cold Minced Chicken Aux Fixes Herbes

Cold minced chicken mixed with herbs, cream, butter, and lemon, served with fried croustades of bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Cold Minced Chicken Aux Fixes Herbes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the mushrooms and sweet herbs.

  2. Add mace, pepper, lemon zest, a little salt, and cream to the minced mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Stir in a piece of butter and stew until well cooked.

  2. Remove the herbs and add the minced chicken, chervil, parsley, and lemon juice.

  3. Heat thoroughly and serve with fried croustades of bread.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the minced mixture a softer, smoother texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour through the stewed mixture.
White meat of cold chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, providing protein and its substantial texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich mixture and balances its flavour.

The step that matters

Stew until well cooked. The mushrooms and herbs must soften fully and release their moisture before the chicken is added. Stewing gently in butter concentrates flavour, and undercooked vegetables leave the mixture wet and raw-tasting.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, butter, mushroom, pepper, lemon, meat, chicken):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter, mushroom, pepper, lemon, meat, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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