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Tubkey Scallop

A baked casserole of finely chopped turkey meat layered with bread crumbs, butter, and a custard mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tubkey Scallop

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Chop the turkey meat finely.

  2. Layer bread crumbs in a buttered dish.

  3. Moisten the crumbs with a little milk.

  4. Add a layer of turkey and some filling.

  5. Place small pieces of butter on top.

  6. Sprinkle with pepper and salt.

  7. Add another layer of crumbs.

  8. Repeat layers until the dish is nearly full.

  9. Mix hot water with leftover turkey gravy.

  10. Pour the mixture over the layers.

Make the topping

  1. In a bowl, combine eggs, milk, melted butter, and a little salt.

  2. Add enough cracker crumbs to thicken the mixture for spreading.

  3. Spread the mixture on top.

  4. Add bits of butter.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover with a plate.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 45 minutes.

  3. Remove the plate for the last 10 minutes to brown the crust.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Meat + turkeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the topping and help it set into a custard-like layer when baked.
Bread crumbs
Form the soft absorbent base layers that soak up milk and gravy.
Cracker crumbs
Thicken the egg mixture so it spreads evenly over the top.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the top crust brown in the oven.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs and loosens the egg topping for a tender texture.

“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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