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Whipped Cream Chicken Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and gelatin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,628 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Whipped Cream Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Force the white meat of a chicken through a meat chopper and pound it to a paste.

  2. Season with horseradish, salt, and pepper.

  3. Mix in a little whipped cream and 1 tablespoon of dissolved gelatin.

  4. Once set, spread the mixture on thin, circular slices of buttered bread.

  5. Decorate with olive rings, bits of cress, and lettuce.

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. Cream + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Horseradish + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, chicken, pepper, cream, gelatin, bread, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

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

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