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Chicken Pie

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and singe the chicken, then simmer it in boiling water until tender.

  2. Save the broth and giblets. Cut the chicken into small pieces.

  3. Slice the pork thinly and fry it with the chicken until browned.

  4. Remove the chicken and pork, then stir in flour into the pan and cook until brown.

  5. Add chicken broth, salt, and pepper to the pan, stirring until it boils for 2 minutes.

  6. For the crust, mix flour, salt, and butter in a bowl, adding cold water to hold it together.

  7. Roll out the dough to 1 inch thick, layer with ¼ pound of butter, fold, and chill for 30 minutes.

  8. Roll out again with another ¼ pound of butter to ½ inch thick, folding in three layers.

  9. Line a deep dish with the crust and layer in the chicken.

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. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

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