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Chicken Cheese

A casserole of boiled chicken and sliced boiled eggs, set in molds and cooled before slicing.

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 ↓

Chicken Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Boil the chickens until tender, then chop them coarsely.

  2. Season the chopped chicken with salt and pepper.

Assemble and set

  1. Boil the eggs, slice them, and set aside.

  2. Line dishes or molds with the sliced eggs.

  3. Pour the chopped chicken and the cooking liquid into the molds.

  4. Let the mixture cool, then slice before serving.

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. 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
Provide the main body of the dish; cooking until tender keeps the meat soft enough to chop.
Eggs
Sliced hard-boiled eggs form a firm lining that holds the layers together when set.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool, then slice before serving. Cooling gives the chicken and cooking liquid time to gel and firm up. Slicing too early gives a loose, crumbly result that will not hold its shape.

“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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