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Croutes of Chicken’s Livers Au Viable

Chicken livers rubbed with butter, seasoned, stewed, chopped and prepared as croutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Croutes of Chicken’s Livers Au Viable

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the livers

  1. Rub the chicken livers with butter.

  2. Season the livers with salt and pepper.

Cook and finish

  1. Stew the livers for 2 to 3 minutes until cooked.

  2. Chop the cooked livers.

  3. Flavor the chopped livers as desired.

  4. Serve as directed in the previous recipe.

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 + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Liver + chickentop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Liver + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Form the main body of the spread, providing rich flavor and a soft, spreadable texture when chopped.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the livers and helps carry flavor through the dish.

The step that matters

Stew the livers until just cooked. Livers turn grainy and dry when overcooked, so stop once they are firm and no longer pink inside. A short, gentle stew keeps them tender enough to chop and spread.

“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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