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Creamed Chicken a LA King

A baked chicken dish with sweetbreads, mushrooms, and cream sauce topped with breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Creamed Chicken a LA King

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chicken and sweetbreads

  1. Boil the chicken in minimal water until very tender, adding boiling water as needed, and salt when halfway done.

  2. Remove the chicken from the bones and cut into small pieces.

  3. Cook the sweetbreads and cut them into small pieces.

  4. Halve the mushrooms and mix them with the chicken and sweetbreads.

Make the sauce

  1. Make a thick white sauce using the quart of cream and a cup of the chicken broth.

  2. Combine the hot sauce with the chicken mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Butter a baking dish, add the mixture, and cover with buttered breadcrumbs.

  2. Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) for one hour.

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main body of the dish, becoming tender from slow boiling.
Sweetbreads
Add a rich, tender texture in small pieces throughout the mixture.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and a soft, moist texture to the filling.
Cream
Forms the thick white sauce that binds the mixture and adds richness.

The step that matters

Make a thick white sauce using the quart of cream and a cup of the chicken broth.. Cream thickens when heated and starch from flour sets the sauce; adding the hot sauce to the mixture keeps it smooth and evenly coated rather than lumpy.

“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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