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Escalloped Chicken

Escalloped Chicken is a baked dish of minced chicken, butter, crackers, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Escalloped Chicken

Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Escalloped Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chicken

  1. Boil the chicken until tender.

  2. Remove the meat from the bones and mince it finely.

Assemble the dish

  1. Layer the minced chicken in a buttered baking dish.

  2. Add a little butter and season with coarse sea salt.

  3. Cover with a layer of rolled crackers, filling the dish.

  4. Pour the chicken broth over the top.

Bake

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 20 minutes.

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

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the dish and provides the savory, meaty base.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the top brown and the flavor feel rounded.
Rolled crackers
Absorb the broth and soften, giving the dish its body and crumbly-to-tender texture.
Chicken broth
Supplies moisture and flavor that soaks into the crackers and keeps the chicken from drying out.

The step that matters

Boil the chicken until tender.. Thoroughly cooked, tender meat is needed to mince finely and evenly. Under-cooked chicken stays tough and can be unsafe to eat.

“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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