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Chicken Pudding

A savory pudding made with chicken, bacon, biscuit, milk, and herbs, baked for 1.5 hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Chicken Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken into 8 pieces and slice the bacon.

  2. Season the chicken and bacon with salt, pepper, parsley, thyme, and broken biscuit.

Cook and serve

  1. Fill the pudding with the seasoned meat.

  2. Add the milk.

  3. Boil for 1.5 hours.

  4. Serve with melted butter.

  5. Garnish with chopped 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.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

  3. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Parsley + biscuittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together204 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and flavourful as it simmers in the pudding.
Bacon
Adds fat and savoury flavour that seasons the meat and enriches the cooking liquid.
Captain's biscuit
Absorbs liquid and thickens the filling, giving it body as it cooks.
Milk
Forms the moist cooking liquid that gently cooks the meat and helps set the filling.

The step that matters

Boil for 1.5 hours. Boiling must be steady but not violent, because a vigorous boil can toughen the meat and break up the pudding. Keeping the water level topped up keeps the filling moist and evenly cooked through.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Marjoramfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, thyme, biscuit, 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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