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Chicken Broth

A clear broth made from chicken parts, water, mace, onion, peppercorns, and a sweet almond mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Chicken Broth

Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the remaining chicken parts in the water they were boiled in.

  2. Add mace, onion, and peppercorns.

  3. Simmer until flavorful.

  4. Mix the beaten almond with water and add to the broth.

  5. Boil for a short time, then let it cool.

  6. Skim off the fat before serving.

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 + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Onion + almondtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Mace + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  4. Chicken + almondtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together838 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Mace + almondtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,010 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken parts
Provide the meat and collagen that give the broth its body and savory flavor.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and depth to the broth as it simmers.
Sweet almond
Adds a mild nutty richness and body to the finished broth.

The step that matters

Skim off the fat before serving. Fat rises and collects on the surface as the broth cools, and leaving it in makes the broth greasy and heavy on the palate. Skimming removes it so the broth tastes clean.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, almond):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, almond. 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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