Name: Chicken, Roast
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken; bread sauce; brown gravy or espagnol sauce; toasted bacon; brown chestnut sauce

Why it works: Bread and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 191 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Chicken, Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Roast the chicken until fully cooked.
Prepare the bread sauce and brown gravy or espagnol sauce.
Serve the chicken with the sauces and toasted bacon.
Optionally, add brown chestnut sauce.

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.

Bread + chestnuttop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together191 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Chicken + chestnuttop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together295 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Sauce + chestnuttop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,934 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).