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Chicken Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped chicken, mashed egg yolks, butter, stock, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggs for 15 minutes, then cool them.

  2. Remove the yolks and mash them as fine as possible.

Make the filling

  1. Combine the mashed yolks with melted butter, lemon juice, chopped chicken, stock, salt, and pepper, and mix everything well to form a paste.

Serve

  1. Use the mixture to make delicate sandwiches for a late supper or card party.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

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

  3. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken
Provides the bulk and meaty substance of the filling.
Egg yolks
Mashed yolks bind the filling and give it a smooth, rich texture.
Melted butter
Adds fat that makes the paste smooth and moist and carries flavor.
Rich stock
Adds savory depth and moisture to the chicken filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich yolk and butter flavors.

The step that matters

Mash the yolks as fine as possible. Finely mashed yolks blend evenly with the butter and chicken, so the paste spreads smoothly without lumps. Coarse pieces of yolk stay crumbly and make the sandwich filling uneven in texture.

“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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