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Chicken -fillets, Java Fashion

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,449 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chicken -fillets, Java Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the swallow nests in cold water until softened, then clean them and poach in poultry broth.

  2. Prepare the chicken fillets by trimming and seasoning both sides with salt and curry powder.

  3. In a sauté pan, heat clarified butter and poach the chicken fillets over brisk heat, turning them until cooked.

  4. Drain the chicken, trim again, and return to the sauté pan, coating with a little velouté sauce mixed with cayenne.

  5. Arrange the chicken fillets in a circular pattern on a plate with a base of poached force-meat.

  6. Drain the swallow nests from the broth, season, thicken with a few tablespoons of sauce, and place them in the center of the dish.

  7. Lightly coat the fillets with more velouté sauce and serve the remaining sauce separately.

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 + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

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

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Butter + meattop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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

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