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Chicken Toast

A dish of simmered chicken with eggs served over buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Chop the cold chicken into fine pieces and place in a saucepan.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, and minced onion.

  3. Add butter, cream, and enough water to cover the chicken.

Cook and serve

  1. Simmer for 15 minutes.

  2. Break the raw eggs over the mixture and stir well.

  3. Pour the mixture over nicely buttered toast and serve.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the chicken mixture and set as it heats, giving it a soft, custardy texture.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the chicken and enriches the buttered toast.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, tender texture to the chicken mixture.
Cold roast or boiled chicken
Forms the main body of the dish, providing protein and savoury flavour.

The step that matters

Breaking in the raw eggs. Eggs must be stirred into the hot mixture and cooked through; stirring well distributes them evenly so the mixture sets into a uniform, creamy texture rather than streaks of raw egg.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, butter, cream, egg):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, butter, cream, 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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