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Dinner. Boiled Fowl

A boiled whole fowl served with baked ham, mutton cutlets, tomato sauce, peas, potatoes, Franchipane cream, and cheesecakes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner. Boiled Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the whole fowl in a pot and cover with water.

  2. Add salt to taste and bring to a boil.

  3. Reduce heat and simmer until fully cooked.

  4. Serve with baked ham and mutton cutlets topped with tomato sauce.

  5. Prepare peas and potatoes as side dishes.

  6. Finish the meal with Franchipane cream and cheesecakes.

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. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  3. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Ham + muttontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole fowl
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender and firm as it simmers in water.
Baked ham
Adds savory, salty flavor as a served main alongside the fowl.
Mutton cutlets
Adds rich, savory meat flavor as a served main alongside the fowl.

The step that matters

Simmer until fully cooked. Once the water reaches a boil, the heat must be lowered to a gentle simmer. A hard boil toughens meat proteins and can break the bird apart, while a gentle simmer cooks it evenly through to the bone.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, mutton, tomato, sauce, potato, cream):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, mutton, tomato, sauce, potato, cream. 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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