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Chicken Loaf

A baked loaf made from shredded chicken, broth, butter, cracker crumbs, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Chicken Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chicken

  1. Cook the chickens and remove the meat.

Form the loaf

  1. Chop the cooked meat and mix it with hot chicken broth, melted butter, cracker crumbs, and beaten eggs.

  2. Form the mixture into a loaf and place it in a buttered tin.

  3. Cover the top and sides with bits of butter and cracker crumbs.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes, basting often with broth.

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).

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. 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

Eggs
Bind the chopped meat together and help the loaf hold its shape when set.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the loaf body, helping it hold together.
Chicken broth
Adds moisture and flavor so the loaf stays tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and helps the top brown as it bakes.

The step that matters

Basting with broth during baking. Lean cooked chicken dries out easily in the oven. Regular basting with broth adds moisture to the surface, helping keep the loaf tender and juicy.

“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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