Why it works: Chicken and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,243 recipes. Both carry 3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓
Chicken Aspic or Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Make the stock
Boil the fowl or chicken as directed for chicken stock.
If using veal, follow the instructions for white stock.
Let the stock cool and remove the grease.
Clarify the stock.
Set the aspic
If only chicken is used, soak ¾ box of gelatin in ½ cup cold water for 1 hour.
Add the soaked gelatin to each quart of hot clarified stock and stir until dissolved.
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 + vealtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,243 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).
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What each ingredient does
- Chicken or fowl
- Provides the flavour and body of the stock that the aspic is made from.
- Cox's gelatine
- Sets the clarified stock into a firm, wobbly jelly as it cools.
- Veal knuckle
- Adds gelatin and richness to the stock, giving a fuller body and set.
The step that matters
Clarify the stock. Cloudy stock will set cloudy and may taste muddy. Clarifying removes suspended proteins and fats, so the finished aspic is clear and bright.
“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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