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Chicken Pudding

A savory pudding made with chicken, flour, milk, eggs, and spices, baked in a pudding dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mace and nutmeg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,557 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chicken by stuffing it with chopped oysters if desired.

  2. In a bowl, mix flour, milk, eggs, pepper, and salt to make a batter.

Assemble

  1. Pour a little batter into the bottom of a pudding dish.

  2. Place the seasoned chicken on its back in the dish and add the shredded onion.

  3. Pour the remaining batter over the chicken.

  4. Top with the butter rolled in flour.

Cook

  1. Cover and boil in hot water for 2 hours.

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. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set into a firm, custard-like pudding.
All-purpose flour
Thickens the batter and gives the pudding its body as it cooks.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, helping the batter cook into a tender texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and the flour coating helps thicken the top layer.
Mushroom powder
Adds concentrated earthy savoury flavour to the pudding.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, nutmeg, butter, flour, milk, egg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, nutmeg, butter, flour, milk, 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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