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Prairie Chickens Baked or Roasted

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 241 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Prairie Chickens Baked or Roasted

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the prairie chickens as for roasted pigeons, omitting the oysters from the stuffing.

  2. Add chopped parsley and summer savory to the stuffing.

  3. Moisten the dressing with melted butter and pour a little water in the dripping pan.

  4. Baste with melted butter and cook for one hour, unless the bird is very tough.

  5. You may split the birds down the back and bake without stuffing, similar to woodcock.

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. Parsley + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  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

Swap the summer savory

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, butter, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Summer savorythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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