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Chicken Pudding

A baked chicken dish with a custard-like filling of eggs, milk, and corn, topped with breadcrumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the chicken

  1. Stew the chicken pieces in just enough water to prevent burning, seasoning with salt and pepper.

Make the custard

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs until light, then mix in the milk and corn, seasoning with salt and pepper.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place the chicken in a large baking dish and pour the egg mixture over it.

  2. Cover with a layer of bread crumbs and dot with butter.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Pepper + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs set the milk and corn into a custard that holds the pudding together.
Milk
Milk forms the liquid base of the custard, giving it a soft, moist texture.
Corn
Corn adds sweetness and body to the custard as it mixes with the eggs and milk.
Chicken
Pre-stewed chicken pieces provide the main protein and become tender beneath the custard.
Bread crumbs
Bread crumbs form a crisp, browned topping as the pudding bakes.

The step that matters

Baking until golden. Egg custard sets when heated, but overbaking can make it curdle, dry and grainy. Bake only until the top is golden and the centre is just set.

“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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