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Baked chicken stuffed with a cornbread and biscuit mixture, topped with bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, combine cornbread and biscuits, then pour boiling water over them to soften.

  3. Add chopped onion, pepper, salt, butter, and egg; mix well.

Stuff and roast

  1. Stuff the mixture into the cleaned chicken.

  2. Sprinkle flour, salt, and pepper over the chicken.

  3. Place a slice of bacon on top of the chicken.

  4. Add hot water to the baking dish and place the chicken in the oven.

  5. Baste the chicken occasionally while it cooks.

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.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Biscuit + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Corn bread
Soaked in boiling water, it softens and binds the stuffing with moisture.
Biscuits
Soften with the boiling water and add body to the moist stuffing.
Egg
Binds the stuffing so it holds together inside the chicken.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the surface brown as it roasts.
Bacon
Its fat bastes the chicken and adds savory flavor as it cooks.

The step that matters

Baste the chicken occasionally while it cooks. Basting spreads fat and pan liquid over the skin, helping it brown and keeping the meat from drying out during roasting.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, corn, bread, biscuit, pepper, butter, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, corn, bread, biscuit, pepper, butter, egg. 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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