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Mayonnaise of Chicken

A salad of roasted chicken fillets topped with lettuce, sardines, anchovies, eggs, cucumber, tomatoes, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Remove the skin from the hot roasted chickens and cut them into neat fillets.

  2. Once cooled, coat the fillets with Mayonnaise Sauce.

Assemble the salad

  1. Cut the Cos lettuce into 1‑inch pieces and arrange them in an oval shape on a flat dish.

  2. Decorate the top with sardines, anchovies, hard‑boiled egg quarters, cucumber slices, and tomato slices.

  3. Arrange the chicken fillets neatly around the lettuce and pour a pint of Mayonnaise 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. Lettuce + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Sauce + tomatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main protein of the salad, providing the bulk of the dish.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds moisture and richness, coating the chicken and binding the dish together.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add firm texture and a creamy, mild richness to the salad.
Anchovies
Contribute a salty, savoury depth that seasons the dish.

The step that matters

Coat the fillets only once cooled. Applying mayonnaise to hot chicken can cause the emulsion to break and turn oily, so the fillets should cool before being coated.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, egg, cucumber, tomato. 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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