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Fowl, Hashed

A hash made from remains of cold roast fowls simmered in stock with vegetables and served with a browned butter‑flour sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fowl, Hashed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Divide the fowl into neat joints.

  2. If no stock is available, simmer the bones and trimmings with flavoring vegetables for at least 1 hour.

Make the sauce

  1. Melt the butter or fat in a pan and fry the flour until lightly browned.

  2. Add the stock and stir until boiling.

  3. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the pieces of fowl to the pan and let it sit for at least 30 minutes to keep hot without cooking.

  2. Serve with the sauce strained over the fowl.

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 + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast fowl
Provides the main meat, which is already cooked and only needs to be heated through.
Butter or good fat
Carries the flour and adds richness and flavor to the sauce base.
Flour
Thickens the stock into a sauce and browns lightly for a deeper, nutty flavor.
Stock
Forms the liquid of the sauce and carries the savory flavor of the dish.

The step that matters

Keep the fowl hot without cooking it. The meat is already cooked, so it only needs gentle warmth. Holding it in hot sauce below a simmer keeps it tender and prevents it from toughening.

“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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