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Chicken Pot-pie

Chicken pot pie with whole chicken pieces, seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, topped with dough crust, cooked in pot for about 1 hour 45 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken Pot-pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken into pieces at the joints.

  2. Make a rich dough for the crust.

Assemble and cook

  1. Place a layer of chicken in the bottom of a pot or large saucepan.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, and add bits of butter.

  3. Add strips or squares of dough on top.

  4. Layer more chicken and cover with another layer of dough, leaving an opening for water.

  5. Cover the pot tightly and cook for about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

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 + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main protein and savory meat flavor that the dish is built around.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavor and keeps the chicken moist as it cooks.
Rich dough for crust
Forms the crust layers that trap steam and cook into a tender, flaky covering.

The step that matters

Cover the pot tightly and cook. A tight lid keeps steam inside so the chicken cooks through gently and the dough softens and sets. Lifting the lid lets steam escape and can leave the chicken dry and the crust uneven.

“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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