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Chicken Patties

A savory pastry-wrapped chicken and ham patty with mushrooms, truffle, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Chicken Patties

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the chicken and ham into small pieces.

  2. Dice the mushrooms and truffle.

  3. Mix the chicken, ham, mushrooms, truffle, lemon juice, salt, and pepper together.

Assemble and bake

  1. Roll out the puff pastry and cut into rounds.

  2. Place a spoonful of the mixture on each round.

  3. Fold the pastry over and seal the edges.

  4. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled chicken
Forms the main body of the filling and gives it its substantial, meaty texture.
Cooked ham
Adds a salty, savoury flavour that stands out against the mild chicken.
Button mushrooms
Contribute moisture and savoury depth to the filling as they cook.
Truffle
Adds a strong, earthy aroma that gives the filling its distinctive character.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich flavours of the meat and mushrooms.
Puff pastry
Its layers puff and separate in the oven, creating a flaky, crisp, golden casing.

The step that matters

Fold the pastry over and seal the edges. If the edges are not sealed firmly, the filling can leak out and steam can escape during baking, leaving the patties dry and the pastry soggy or misshapen.

“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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