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Fricassee of Chickens, a LA Chevaliere

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Fricassee of Chickens, a LA Chevaliere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the legs and wings from the chicken.

  2. With a knife, slit the skin of the breast and remove the fillets, leaving the pinion bone attached.

  3. Trim the fillets and lard them closely.

  4. Place the larded fillets in a small sauté pan with thin layers of fat bacon.

  5. Trim the remaining chicken pieces and set aside.

  6. In a stewpan, combine the smaller chicken pieces with button mushrooms, cocks' combs, and truffles.

  7. Reduce the mixture with a sauce of Allemande, incorporating 4 egg yolks, grated nutmeg, mignonette pepper, and a small piece of glaze.

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, truffle, mushroom, egg, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, truffle, mushroom, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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