Why it works: Biscuit and chicken work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 332 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare biscuit dough and cut it into square pieces.
Bake the biscuit pieces in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.
Split the baked biscuits and place them on a platter.
Pour gravy over the biscuits and add cooked chicken in the center.
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.
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Biscuit + chickentop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together332 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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