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Chicken Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped cooked chicken, boiled egg yolks, milk or cream, butter, and seasonings, served on sliced bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chicken, salt, pepper, and onion juice.

  2. Mash the boiled egg yolks and add them to the mixture.

  3. Stir in the milk or cream and softened butter until well combined.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture evenly on 20 slices of bread.

  2. Top with the remaining slices.

  3. Cut into quarters.

  4. Serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Provides the main filling, bulk and savoury flavour of the sandwich.
Boiled egg yolks
Mashed into the filling, they add richness and a soft, creamy texture.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and softness, helping the filling spread smoothly.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, more spreadable filling.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling; day-old slices hold up better to spreading.

The step that matters

Stir in the milk or cream and softened butter until well combined. Mixing the liquid and fat fully into the mashed yolks and chicken keeps the filling smooth and evenly moist. Unblended fat or liquid can leave greasy or dry pockets that soak or crumble into the bread.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

“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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