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Chicken Sandwiches

A sandwich made with minced cold chicken mixed with gravy, water, or cream, butter, and pepper, spread between buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the cold chicken finely.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the chicken with enough gravy, water, or cream to soften it.

  3. Add a piece of butter and a pinch of pepper.

  4. Heat the mixture, stirring until smooth and paste-like.

  5. Spread the mixture on a plate to cool.

Assemble

  1. Spread the cooled chicken mixture between slices of buttered bread.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Cold boiled or roasted chicken
Provides the main filling, which is broken down into a soft, spreadable paste.
Gravy, water, or cream
Adds moisture so the minced chicken softens and blends into a smooth spread.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth texture to the filling and enriches the bread.

The step that matters

Heating the mixture until smooth and paste-like. Heating with liquid and stirring breaks the minced chicken into a fine, even paste. If it is under-stirred, the filling stays lumpy and does not spread well.

“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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