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Boiled Fowl

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Summer savory and pepper work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 671 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Boiled Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the liver, gizzard, heart, and lower part of the legs in ½ cup water until cooked.

  2. Chop the cooked organs finely.

  3. Mix the chopped organs with ¼ cup drawn butter, ½ cup bread crumbs, coarse sea salt, summer savory, and pepper.

  4. Stuff the fowl with the mixture.

  5. Place the stuffed fowl in a pot and cover it with water.

  6. Stew the fowl gently until tender.

  7. Serve with additional drawn butter.

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. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Bread + summer savorytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Liver + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together731 recipes

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

Swap the summer savory

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, butter, bread, pepper):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Summer savorythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, butter, bread, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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