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Turkey Dressing

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Turkey Dressing

Why it works: Marjoram and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Turkey Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine bread crumbs, chopped oysters, mushrooms, and Italian chestnuts.

  2. Add sweet marjoram, summer savory, pepper, coarse sea salt, and a pinch of nutmeg.

  3. Melt butter and mix it into the bread crumb mixture until well combined.

  4. Stuff the turkey with the mixture before cooking.

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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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. Marjoram + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  5. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, oyster, mushroom, marjoram, summer savory, pepper, butter):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutthe original
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, oyster, mushroom, marjoram, summer savory, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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