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Breaded Chicken

Breaded chicken pieces coated in egg and breadcrumbs, baked with butter and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Breaded Chicken

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Breaded Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the young chickens into pieces.

  2. Dip each piece in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs or rolled cracker.

  3. Season each piece with pepper, salt, and minced parsley.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the seasoned pieces in a baking pan and top each with a lump of butter.

  2. Add ½ cup of hot water to the pan and bake slowly, basting often.

  3. Once cooked, transfer the chicken to a warm platter.

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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Explore the science

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 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

Beaten egg
Helps the bread crumbs or cracker coating adhere to the chicken pieces.
Grated bread crumbs or rolled cracker
Forms a crisp, golden coating on the outside of the chicken.
Butter
Adds fat that enriches flavor and helps the coating brown during baking.

The step that matters

Bake slowly and baste often. Slow baking with added water gently cooks the meat through, while basting keeps the surface moist so the coating does not dry out or burn before the chicken is done.

“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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