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Chicken served with a mayonnaise and aspic sauce, garnished with truffle, chervil, endive, cucumber, and aspic blocks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken, Mayonnaise of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Cut the chicken into small joints, removing all skin and ends of bones.

  2. Shape the chicken pieces neatly.

Make and coat

  1. Dissolve the aspic jelly; when cool, mix it with the mayonnaise sauce.

  2. Place the chicken pieces on a wire tray and pour the sauce over them using a tablespoon.

  3. Once the sauce is set, decorate with truffle and chervil, then mask with a thin layer of liquid aspic.

Arrange and garnish

  1. Arrange the chicken on a dish over a bed of dressed salad.

  2. Garnish with sprigs of endive, slices of cucumber, and blocks of aspic jelly.

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. Chervil + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Endive + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Chervil + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the savoury meat that the sauce coats.
Mayonnaise sauce
Coats the chicken and adds richness and a smooth, creamy texture.
Aspic jelly
Sets into a gel that holds the sauce in place and gives the coating a glossy finish.

The step that matters

Cooling the aspic before mixing it with the mayonnaise. Warm aspic can thin or split the mayonnaise, and hot liquid can break the emulsion. Letting it cool to near setting point keeps the sauce thick and smooth so it coats the chicken evenly.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, truffle, chervil, endive. 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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