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Fricassee Chicken

A stew of boiled chicken with a browned butter gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Fricassee Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Boil the chicken until nearly tender, then drain and let it dry.

Make the gravy

  1. In a frying pan, melt the butter and fry until brown.

  2. Thicken the broth from boiling the chicken.

Serve

  1. Serve the chicken in a deep dish and pour the gravy over it.

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
Provides the main protein, and boiling it yields the broth used for the gravy.
Butter
Adds richness and, when browned, a nutty, toasted flavour.
Broth from boiled chicken
Forms the liquid base of the gravy, carrying flavour from the chicken.

The step that matters

Fry the butter until brown. Butter browns through the Maillard reaction and milk-solid caramelisation, which add color and nutty flavour. Burnt butter turns bitter, so it should be watched closely and removed from heat once golden brown.

“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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