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A Most Delicate Chicken Cream Pudding

A creamy chicken pudding made with chicken, butter, eggs, whipped cream, and seasoned with salt and cayenne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

A Most Delicate Chicken Cream Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Fillet the chicken and scrape the fillets into a pulp.

  2. Pound the chicken in a mortar with the butter.

  3. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well.

  4. Pass the mixture through a fine wire sieve and chill in a basin on ice.

Make the mousse

  1. Gently fold in the whipped cream.

  2. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture.

  3. Season with salt and cayenne to taste.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered mold.

  2. Place the mold in a stewpan with boiling water and steam without boiling.

  3. Once set, carefully turn it out onto a dish and serve with half glaze.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the pudding, giving it its savoury flavour and set structure.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, soft texture to the pounded chicken.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, tender custard-like texture.
Whipped cream
Adds moisture and lightness, making the pudding softer and more delicate.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff foam, they lighten the mixture and add airy structure.

The step that matters

Steam without boiling. Gentle steaming sets the egg-based mixture evenly. Boiling water or high heat would cause the eggs to curdle and turn the texture grainy and rubbery.

“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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