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Chickens with Lemon Sauce

A dish of boiled or braised chickens served with a lemon, salt, and pepper sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Chickens with Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the chickens until they are white, or braise them with strips of bacon on top.

  2. Prepare a lemon sauce by mixing lemon juice, salt, and pepper to taste.

Serve

  1. Serve the chickens with the lemon sauce drizzled over them.

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 + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Chickens
Form the main body of the dish, providing the protein that is cooked by boiling or braising.
Bacon
Adds fat and smoky flavour to the chicken while it braises.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that gives the sauce its bright, sharp flavour.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Mangofits less well
  4. Grapefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper. 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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