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Chickex Cheese

A chilled casserole of sliced chicken and boiled eggs in chicken broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,958 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Chickex Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken and eggs

  1. Boil the chickens until tender.

  2. Chop the chickens, but not too finely.

  3. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.

  4. Slice the boiled eggs.

Assemble and set

  1. Layer the chicken and egg slices in a dish or mold.

  2. Pour the chicken broth from boiling over the layers.

  3. Let the dish cool.

  4. Slice the cooled dish.

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chickens
Provides the main body, protein and savoury flavour of the dish.
Boiled eggs
Adds a firm, sliceable layer and richness between the chicken.

The step that matters

Let the dish cool fully before slicing. Collagen from the chicken dissolves into the hot broth and forms a gel as it cools. Cutting too early means the layers have not set and the slices will fall apart.

“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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