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Chicken Patties

A dish of ground chicken and mushrooms formed into patties and cooked in a milk and flour gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Chicken Patties

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the bits of chicken from the bones.

  2. Chop or grind the chicken and mushrooms.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and celery flavoring.

Make the gravy

  1. Cook in 1 cup of milk.

  2. Make a paste with 1 tablespoon of flour and butter.

  3. Add the paste to the mixture.

  4. Cook until the flour thickens the gravy.

Shape and serve

  1. Place the mixture in hot pattie pans and serve.

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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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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Mushroom + celerytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,006 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Bits of chicken
Provides the main protein, which firms up and holds its shape when cooked.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and savory, earthy flavor to the filling.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the gravy that binds the mixture together.
Flour
Thickens the milk into a gravy that helps hold the mixture together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the flour blend smoothly into a paste.

The step that matters

Cook until the flour thickens the gravy. Flour starch swells as it heats in liquid, which thickens the gravy. Stopping too early leaves the gravy thin and the flour tasting raw.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, pepper, milk, flour, 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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