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Broiled Chicken

A whole chicken cut in half, grilled with butter, salt, pepper, and served with stewed mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Broiled Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken in half through the back and flatten it.

  2. Place the chicken on a cold grill over a medium fire.

  3. Once hot, transfer the chicken to a plate.

  4. Coat the chicken well with butter.

  5. Season the inside with coarse sea salt and black pepper to taste.

Grill and serve

  1. Return the chicken to the grill, turning it frequently until fully cooked, about 20 minutes.

  2. Serve hot with a dab of butter and plenty of stewed mushrooms.

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.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main protein, and cooking sets its muscle fibres into firm, sliceable meat.
Butter
Adds fat that carries flavour and helps the skin brown and stay moist.
Stewed mushrooms
Add moisture and savoury, earthy flavour to balance the grilled chicken.

The step that matters

Turning the chicken frequently on the grill. Frequent turning spreads the heat evenly, so the skin does not scorch before the thickest parts cook through. Fully cooked poultry should be reached without drying the meat, so watch the heat and the cooking time closely.

“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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