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Chicken Patties or Vol-au-Vents

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,449 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chicken Patties or Vol-au-Vents

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the white meat of the cooked chicken or pass it through a mincer.

  2. Simmer the bones with lemon peel, a mushroom, herbs, and peppercorns to make gravy.

  3. Strain the gravy and add half as much minced chicken as there is stock.

  4. For each quarter pound of chicken, add 1 tablespoon of minced ham.

  5. Enrich with cream and thicken with white roux until it drops from the spoon.

  6. Season with mace, nutmeg, lemon juice, or flavored vinegar as desired.

  7. For richer patties, mix in the yolks of 2 eggs or use a rich white sauce.

  8. For plainer patties, mix the chicken with a little white or brown sauce.

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. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mace

The recipe marks mace as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, chicken, ham, cream, lemon, egg):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, chicken, ham, cream, lemon, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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