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Chicken Mayonnaise

Cold chicken served with mayonnaise and aspic, garnished with truffle, chervil, endive, cucumber, and dressed salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Cut the chicken into small joints, removing all skin and ends of bones.

  2. Shape the chicken pieces neatly.

Coat and set

  1. Dissolve the aspic jelly; when cool, mix it with the mayonnaise sauce.

  2. Place the chicken pieces on a wire tray and carefully pour the sauce over them using a tablespoon.

  3. Once the sauce is set, decorate with truffle and chervil, then mask with a thin layer of liquid aspic.

Serve

  1. Arrange the chicken on a dish over a bed of dressed salad.

  2. Garnish with sprigs of endive, slices of cucumber, and pieces of aspic jelly.

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. Chervil + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Endive + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

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

  3. Chervil + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the substantial meat that the coating surrounds.
Mayonnaise sauce
Provides a rich, creamy coating that gives the chicken moisture and a smooth texture.
Aspic jelly
Sets into a clear gel that holds the coating in place and adds a glossy finish.

The step that matters

Pour the sauce over the chicken once it is cool. The aspic must be cool but still liquid so it thickens into an even coating. If it is too hot, it thins and runs off; if it has set, it will not spread smoothly.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, truffle, chervil, endive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, truffle, chervil, endive. 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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