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Chicken coated in mayonnaise and aspic, served on dressed salad with truffle, chervil, endive, cucumber, and aspic jelly garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken, Mayonnaise of

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Cut the chicken into small joints, removing all skin and ends of bones.

  2. Dissolve the aspic jelly.

Coat and set

  1. When cooled, mix it with the mayonnaise sauce and coat the chicken pieces.

  2. Place the chicken on a wire tray.

  3. Carefully pour the sauce over it using a tablespoon.

  4. Once the sauce is set, decorate with truffle and chervil.

  5. Mask with a thin layer of liquid aspic.

Arrange and garnish

  1. Arrange the chicken on a dish over a bed of dressed salad.

  2. Garnish the dish with sprigs of endive, cucumber slices, and blocks of aspic jelly.

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. Chervil + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Endive + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Chervil + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the substantial meat that the sauce coats.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds richness and fat, giving the coating a smooth, creamy texture.
Aspic jelly
Gelatine-based setting agent that firms the sauce and gives the coating a glossy finish.

The step that matters

Pouring the sauce over the chicken. The sauce must be cool, not warm, and poured carefully so it coats evenly. If it is too warm it runs off, and if it is too cold or thick it clumps. Letting it set fully before decorating prevents the decorations from sliding.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, truffle, chervil, endive. 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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