Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
Chicken Patties
Ingredients
Directions
The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.
Prepare the pastry
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Roll out the puff pastry and cut out 9 or 10 patty cases.
Use a smaller cutter to mark the centers for the lids.
Bake the pastry cases for 20 to 25 minutes until golden.
Scoop out the soft inside of the cases and keep the lids.
Make the filling
Mix the chicken, ham, mushrooms, and truffle in a bowl.
In a saucepan, heat the Bechamel sauce and add the chicken mixture.
Season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, stirring until hot.
Fill and serve
Fill the pastry cases with the mixture, place the lids on top, and serve garnished with parsley.
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.
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Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,172 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
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Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,900 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together13,580 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together516 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Chicken
- Provides the main body and bulk of the savoury filling.
- Puff pastry
- Bakes into flaky, layered cases that hold the filling.
- Bechamel sauce
- Binds the chopped ingredients together into a creamy, moist filling.
- Ham
- Adds salty, savoury flavour to the filling.
- Mushrooms
- Add earthy flavour and a soft, moist texture to the filling.
The step that matters
Bake the pastry cases until golden. Puff pastry rises through steam released from its butter layers. If the oven is too cool, the layers will not puff, and the cases will stay dense and pale. Baking until golden also ensures they are dry and crisp enough to hold the filling.
“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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