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Mushroom Stuffing

A mushroom and oyster stuffing for turkey made with crumbled dinner rolls, mace, poultry seasoning, cream sauce, and Madeira wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,632 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol, which smells allspice, anise. The science ↓

Mushroom Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the drained mushrooms coarsely.

Make the stuffing

  1. Combine mushrooms, oysters, crumbled dinner rolls, mace, salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, and cream sauce in a bowl.

  2. Add Madeira wine to taste.

Stuff the turkey

  1. Stuff the turkey with the mixture at least 18 hours before roasting.

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. Mushroom + winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Oyster + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy savory flavor to the stuffing.
Oysters
Add a briny, savory depth that complements the mushrooms.
Dinner rolls
Provide bulk and absorb the cream sauce to form the stuffing's body.
Cream sauce
Moistens the bread and gives the stuffing a rich, tender texture.
Madeira wine
Adds sweetness and a rounded, aromatic depth of flavor.

The step that matters

Stuff the turkey at least 18 hours before roasting. Stuffing held in a raw bird for a long period can spoil if it is not kept cold, and the bread needs time to absorb the liquid evenly. Keep the bird refrigerated until roasting and pack the stuffing loosely so the centre cooks through.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, oyster, pepper, cream, sauce, wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, oyster, pepper, cream, sauce, wine. 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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