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Chicken Sandwiches

A sandwich made with shredded chicken, chopped hard‑boiled eggs, pepper, sea salt, and gravy, served on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the chicken until very tender.

  2. Chop the chicken and hard boiled eggs finely.

  3. Season the mixture with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Make the gravy and assemble

  1. Make a rich gravy using the broth from boiling the chicken.

  2. Pour the gravy over the chicken and egg mixture until it reaches the desired consistency.

  3. Spread the mixture on slices of buttered bread.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 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

Whole chicken
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender from boiling and is chopped into the filling.
Hard boiled eggs
Add body and richness to the filling as they are chopped in with the chicken.
Gravy (from chicken broth)
Adds moisture and savoury flavour, binding the chopped chicken and egg into a spreadable mixture.
Buttered bread
Gives the sandwich its structure and a rich, golden fat flavour from the butter.

The step that matters

Adding the gravy. Gravy should be added gradually until the mixture reaches the desired consistency. Too much liquid makes the filling soggy and hard to spread, while too little leaves it dry and crumbly.

“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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