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A hash made from whole fowl, gravy, lemon pickle, catsup, lemon, flour, butter, cream, and toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

To Hash Foivls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut up the fowl and place it in a pan.

  2. Add gravy, lemon pickle, catsup, and a slice of lemon.

Cook and finish

  1. Thicken the mixture with flour and butter.

  2. Just before serving, stir in the cream.

  3. Lay sippets in a dish and pour the hash over them.

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.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Lemon + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Fowl
Forms the main body of the hash, providing meat that becomes tender as it simmers in the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the gravy into a smooth sauce that clings to the meat.
Butter
Enriches the sauce and combines with flour to form the thickening base.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, smoother texture to the finished sauce.

The step that matters

Thicken the mixture with flour and butter. Flour must be cooked with the butter and liquid long enough to swell and thicken evenly. Adding it unevenly or too quickly can leave lumps or a thin, pasty sauce.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, cream, bread):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, cream, bread. 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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