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Fillets of Chicken with Endive

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Endive and sauce work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 129 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fillets of Chicken with Endive

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the endive by boiling it longer to thicken before stirring in the egg yolks.

  2. Place the thickened endive in the center of a serving dish and smooth it with a knife.

  3. Prepare the chicken fillets as directed in previous recipes.

  4. Neatly arrange the chicken fillets over the endive.

  5. Pour the bechamel sauce over the entire dish.

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. Endive + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Endive + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 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

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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