Why it works: Chicken and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 332 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Chicken Stewed with Biscuit
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a fricassee with the chickens.
Bake two trays of rich soda or baking-powder biscuits until golden.
Remove the biscuits from the oven and split them apart by hand.
Place the split biscuits on a large meat platter.
Pour the hot chicken stew over the biscuits.
Serve immediately while hot.
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.
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Chicken + biscuittop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together332 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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