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Chicken Curry

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Chicken Curry

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Curry

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the chicken into pieces for fricassee and dredge with flour.

  2. Combine chicken trimmings, onion, essence, carrot, peppercorns, celery, salt, and sugar in a saucepan.

  3. Cover with cold water and simmer to make broth.

  4. Strain the broth into a bowl and skim off any fat.

  5. Prepare 1 cup of coconut or almond milk.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  5. Carrot + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, flour, onion, carrot, celery, sugar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, onion, carrot, celery, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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