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Fob Cold Chicken

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Fob Cold Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the meat from the cold chicken and cut it into neat pieces.

  2. In a stewpan, combine the chicken bones and 1 pint of white stock.

  3. Wash, scrape, and slice the carrot; peel the onion; and wash the celery.

  4. Add the carrot, onion, celery, bouquet garni, clove, peppercorns, and mace to the stewpan.

  5. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.

  6. Strain the stock into a basin.

  7. Prepare the mushrooms by cutting off the stalk ends, washing, and peeling them.

  8. In a stewpan, melt a piece of butter the size of a chestnut, add the mushrooms, lemon juice, and cold water.

  9. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat and transfer to a plate.

  10. In another stewpan, melt ½ ounce of 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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, carrot, onion, celery, parsley, thyme, cream):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, carrot, onion, celery, parsley, thyme, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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