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Chicken Patties

Chicken patties are puff pastry shells filled with a mixture of cooked chicken, ham, mushrooms, and sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Chicken Patties

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

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

Shape and bake the cases

  1. Prepare puff pastry.

  2. Roll the puff pastry out to ½ inch thickness.

  3. Cut the pastry into rounds.

  4. Place the pastry rounds on a wet baking sheet.

  5. Brush the tops with beaten egg.

  6. Mark the centers with a smaller cutter.

  7. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 20 to 25 minutes until well risen and firm.

Hollow the cases

  1. Remove the lids and scoop out any soft pastry inside.

  2. Dry the pastry in the oven.

Make the filling and serve

  1. Combine the chicken, ham, mushrooms, thick white sauce, and seasonings in a pan.

  2. Heat the mixture thoroughly.

  3. Stir in the cream.

  4. Fill the patty cases with the mixture.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  3. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Patty cases
Puff pastry rises and crisps in the oven, forming a shell that holds the filling.
Chicken
Provides the main protein and body of the filling.
Thick white sauce
Binds the filling together and keeps it moist and creamy.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and an earthy flavor to the filling.
Ham
Adds salty, savory flavor that seasons the filling.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother texture to the finished filling.

The step that matters

Dry the pastry in the oven.. Moisture trapped inside the hollowed pastry turns it soft and soggy once filled. Drying the shells lets steam escape so they stay crisp.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ham, mushroom, sauce, pepper, cream):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Limefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, mushroom, sauce, pepper, cream. 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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