Why it works: Chicken and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,208 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓
Chicken Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut up the chicken and break all the bones.
Make the stock
Place the chicken in a jar and fill it with boiling water.
Tightly cover the jar and keep it in the boiling water for 3 hours.
Strain the liquid and season it with coarse sea salt and mace, if desired.
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.
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Chicken + macetop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,208 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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What each ingredient does
- Chicken
- Breaking the bones and cooking for hours releases collagen and gelatin that set the liquid into aspic.
The step that matters
Keeping the jar tightly covered during the 3-hour cook. A tight seal keeps the liquid from evaporating and concentrating unevenly, so the broth stays rich and its gelatin can set properly when cooled.
“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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