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Poulet a LA Mayonnaise

Layered cold roast chicken with lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, cress, eggs, capers, and anchovy‑infused mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Poulet a LA Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the fowl into neat joints.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place a layer of lettuce on a dish, then a layer of fowl, and sprinkle with capers.

  2. Slice the cucumber, eggs, and radishes, and make a layer of these over the chicken.

  3. Repeat the layers and decorate the top attractively.

  4. Add the anchovy essence to the mayonnaise sauce and pour it over the dish.

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. Lettuce + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lettuce + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cucumber + radishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lettuce + radishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise sauce
Coats the dressed layers with a rich, creamy texture and fat.
Eggs
Add firm texture and mild richness as a sliced layer.
Anchovy essence
Adds a salty, savoury depth that seasons the mayonnaise.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, cucumber, radish, egg, anchovy, sauce, capers):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, cucumber, radish, egg, anchovy, sauce, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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