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Creamed Chicken

A dish of cooked chicken mixed with white sauce, almonds, and egg yolk, served in timbales or on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Creamed Chicken

Why it works: Chicken and almond work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 838 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Creamed Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Make the creamed chicken

  1. In a saucepan, combine the cooked chicken and Standard White Sauce.

  2. Add the chopped almonds and heat the mixture gently.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, stir in the egg yolk and cook for a moment.

  2. Serve in Swedish Timbales or on bread canapés.

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. Chicken + almondtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together838 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Almond + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,645 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + almondtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the dish.
Standard white sauce
Forms the creamy base that carries and moistens the chicken.
Almonds
Add crunch and a nutty flavour that contrasts with the smooth sauce.
Egg yolk
Enriches the sauce and thickens it slightly when gently heated.

The step that matters

Stirring in the egg yolk. The yolk must be added just before serving and cooked only briefly. Yolk proteins set at moderate heat, so overheating curdles the sauce into grainy lumps and thins its smooth texture.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, egg. 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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