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Alice Carey's Minced Chicken

A dish of minced chicken mixed with gravy and mushroom sauce, topped with ham slices, poached eggs, and served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Alice Carey's Minced Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chicken filling

  1. Mince the leftover cold roast or boiled chicken.

  2. Warm the minced chicken with ½ cup of cold gravy and 1 tablespoon of mushroom sauce.

  3. Pile the mixture in the center of a dish.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange small, thin slices of broiled ham around the chicken.

  2. Top with poached eggs on toast.

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

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,486 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast or boiled chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the dish.
Cold gravy
Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the minced chicken as it warms.
Mushroom sauce
Adds concentrated savoury, earthy flavour to the chicken mixture.
Broiled ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour and a browned, meaty taste.
Poached eggs
Add richness, and their softly set whites and runny yolks enrich the dish.
Toast
Gives a firm base that soaks up the gravy and sauce.

The step that matters

Poaching the eggs. Poach in gently simmering water, not a rolling boil. Heat sets the egg white quickly around the yolk; a hard boil scatters the whites and can break the eggs apart, while gentle heat keeps the yolks runny and the shapes neat.

“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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