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Chickens and Tongue a LA Macedoine

A dish of boiled spring chickens and glazed tongue served with cauliflowers or broccoli and white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and cauliflower work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 112 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chickens and Tongue a LA Macedoine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the spring chickens until cooked.

Plate and serve

  1. Place the chickens in a dish with the glazed tongue in the center.

  2. Garnish with cauliflowers or broccoli.

  3. Sauce the chickens and vegetables with white sauce.

  4. Serve immediately.

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 + cauliflowertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cauliflower + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Spring chickens
Provide the main cooked meat that forms the body of the dish.
Tongue
Serves as the centerpiece of the dish, presented in the middle of the plate.
Cauliflowers or broccoli
Add vegetable bulk and a fresh contrast in colour and texture to the plate.
White sauce
Adds moisture and a smooth, creamy coating over the chicken and vegetables.

Swap the cauliflower

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce. 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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