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Chicken Loaf

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,904 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Chicken Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the chicken carefully.

  2. Fill the chicken with chopped sweetbread, well seasoned.

  3. Shape the chicken back into its original form and tie it up with bacon.

  4. Wrap the chicken in a cloth and boil it in white wine, good stock, and sweet herbs.

  5. Once cooked, untie the chicken and use the bacon as a garnish, cut into narrow strips.

  6. Serve with a rich sauce.

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 + white winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,904 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. White wine + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together819 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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