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Mayonnaise of Pheasant, Turkey, or Guinea

A mayonnaise-based salad with chicken fillets, lettuce, sardines, anchovies, eggs, cucumber, tomatoes, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Pheasant, Turkey, or Guinea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Skin the chickens and cut them into neat fillets.

  2. Mask the fillets with Mayonnaise Sauce.

Arrange and dress the dish

  1. Cut the Cos lettuce into 1-inch pieces and arrange in an oval shape on a flat dish.

  2. Decorate with scraped and boned sardines, washed and boned anchovies, quartered hard-boiled eggs, sliced cucumber, and sliced tomatoes.

  3. Arrange the chicken fillets neatly around the dish.

  4. Pour 1 pint of Mayonnaise Sauce over the entire dish.

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. Lettuce + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Lettuce + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the salad.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds richness and moisture, coating the fillets and binding the salad.
Cos lettuce
Forms the crisp base that the other ingredients rest on.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add soft, creamy texture and mild richness.
Tomatoes
Add juiciness and a fresh acidity.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, lettuce, egg, cucumber, tomato, sugar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, lettuce, egg, cucumber, tomato, sugar. 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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