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Chicken Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix chopped chicken or turkey with lettuce or cabbage and enough mayonnaise to make it spreadable.

  2. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread.

  3. Add a small spoonful of cranberry sauce on top before closing the sandwich.

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. Lettuce + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Bread + cranberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Lettuce + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Chicken + cranberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, cranberry, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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