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Fricassee of Chicken

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Fricassee of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the chicken by cutting it into neat pieces and trimming off the skin.

  2. Place the chicken pieces in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, then strain.

  3. Wash the chicken pieces in cold water and return them to the pot with fresh water to cover.

  4. Add one onion stuck with four cloves, a blade of mace, six peppercorns, a bunch of herbs, and a teaspoon of salt.

  5. Simmer gently for about 30 minutes until the chicken is tender. Remove the chicken from the stock.

  6. Strain the stock and save it for later use.

  7. Pour hot water over the chicken pieces to cleanse them from any scum or herb pieces.

  8. In a separate pot, bring ¾ cup of milk to a boil with one onion, a blade of mace, a thin strip of lemon peel, and a dust of cayenne pepper.

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

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  5. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, butter, egg, milk, flour, mushroom):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, butter, egg, milk, flour, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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