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Broiled Chicken

A whole chicken seasoned with salt, pepper, and salt pork, broiled and served with butter, lemon slices, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat a grill over bright coals.

  2. Season the chicken inside with coarse sea salt and pepper.

Grill and serve

  1. Place the chicken on the grill, cooking until browned and cooked through, turning to prevent burning.

  2. Add thin slices of salt pork to the grill to cook alongside the chicken.

  3. Once cooked, mix plenty of butter into the chicken.

  4. Serve garnished with the pork, lemon slices, and parsley.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Whole chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking through over direct heat until browned.
Salt pork
Renders fat onto the grill and adds savory, crisp flavor alongside the chicken.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, coating the cooked chicken with fat.

The step that matters

Turning the chicken on the grill. Turning regularly keeps the skin from scorching over direct coals before the inside is cooked through. Fat dripping onto the coals can flare up, so the heat needs steady attention.

“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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