Name: Yankee Stewed Chicken
Ingredients: 2 chickens; 2 baking pans of rich baking powder biscuits; salt; pepper

Why it works: Biscuit and pepper work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 841 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Yankee Stewed Chicken

Ingredients

2 chickens
2 baking pans of rich baking powder biscuits
salt
pepper

Directions

Prepare a fricassee of the chickens.
Have two baking pans of biscuits ready just before serving.
Split the hot biscuits apart with your hands.
Place the biscuits on a large meat platter.
Pour the hot chicken stew over the biscuits and serve.

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.

Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together841 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,958 recipes

Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).
Chicken + biscuittop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together332 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).