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Pickled Chicken

Chicken boiled, then pickled in vinegar and boiling water with optional spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,344 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Pickled Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the chickens until the meat is tender and falls from the bones.

  2. Place the meat in a stone jar.

Pickle

  1. Pour the cold vinegar and the reserved boiling water over the meat.

  2. Add spices if desired.

  3. Let it sit for 2 days before using.

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. Chicken + vinegartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Chickens
Provide the meat, which is cooked until tender before pickling.
Vinegar
Its acidity preserves the meat and gives it a sharp, tangy flavor.
Water from boiling chickens
Carries the flavor of the cooked chicken into the pickling liquid.

The step that matters

Let it sit for 2 days before using. The acid in the vinegar needs time to penetrate the meat, which changes its texture and flavor. Using it too early leaves the meat sharp on the outside and under-flavored inside.

“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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