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Broiled Spring Chicken

A young chicken roasted under a broiler with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Broiled Spring Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat your broiler.

  2. Place the chicken breast down and broil for about 20 minutes.

  3. Baste the chicken with melted butter.

  4. Turn the chicken to prevent scorching.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Spring chicken
Provides the main protein, which cooks through and browns under the broiler's direct heat.
Melted butter
Adds moisture and richness to the surface, helping the chicken brown and stay juicy.

The step that matters

Turn the chicken to prevent scorching. The broiler's intense direct heat can char the surface before the interior cooks. Turning the bird exposes different sides evenly, and basting with butter helps the skin brown rather than burn.

“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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