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Chicken Patties

Chicken patties made with leftover roast chicken, seasonings, and puff pastry, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Chicken Patties

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 ↓

Chicken Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Finely chop the leftover roast chicken.

  2. Season the chicken with pepper, salt, and chopped parsley or celery.

Assemble and bake

  1. Roll out the puff pastry to ¼ inch thick and cut into circles.

  2. Place a narrow strip of pastry around the edge of each circle.

  3. Spoon some of the chicken mixture onto the pastry.

  4. Cover with another pastry circle and seal the edges.

  5. Broil for 15 minutes until golden.

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. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,314 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Leftover roast chicken
Forms the main savory filling and provides most of the patties' bulk and texture.
Puff pastry
Its layers of fat and dough separate and puff into flaky, crisp layers as it bakes.

The step that matters

Seal the edges. A tight seal keeps the filling inside while the patties bake. Escaping juices can make the pastry soggy and stop the edges from puffing properly.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper. 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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