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Galantine of Chicken

A boned chicken stuffed with sausage, ham, eggs, and seasonings, rolled, boiled, and glazed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Galantine of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Lay the boned chicken flat on a board with the skin side down.

  2. Spread the sausage meat, chopped ham, chopped hard-boiled eggs, and seasonings over the chicken.

  3. Roll the chicken tightly and tie it securely with kitchen twine.

Cook

  1. Wrap the roll in a cloth and boil in water with the bones for about three hours until tender.

  2. Remove the cloth immediately after boiling, but leave the twine on until it cools nearly completely.

Finish

  1. Once cooled, glaze the galantine.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the outer wrap that encloses the filling and holds the roll together while it cooks.
Sausage meat
Adds fat and richness, keeping the filling moist as it cooks.
Ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour to the filling.
Hard-boiled eggs
Adds firm, pale pieces that show as flecks in the sliced cut face.

The step that matters

Roll and tie the chicken tightly. A loose roll lets the filling shift and leave gaps during cooking. Tight rolling and secure tying keep the layers together while the meat sets, so the slices hold their shape.

“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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