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Hashed Tubkey

A simple dish of diced roast turkey simmered with onion, carrot, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,555 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Hashed Tubkey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cold roast turkey into small pieces.

  2. Dice the onion and carrot.

Cook

  1. In a pot, combine the turkey, onion, carrot, water, salt, and pepper.

  2. Bring to a boil, then simmer until the vegetables are tender.

Serve

  1. Serve hot.

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. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  2. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Turkey + carrottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together230 recipes

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

  5. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast turkey
Forms the main body of the hash and is already cooked, so it only needs heating through.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and flavor as it softens in the simmering liquid.
Carrot
Adds mild sweetness and a tender texture as it simmers.

The step that matters

Simmer until the vegetables are tender. The turkey is already cooked, so the goal is gently heating it and softening the vegetables. A hard, prolonged boil can toughen the meat and break the vegetables apart, so keep the pot at a gentle simmer once it has come to a boil.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, pepper, carrot):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, pepper, carrot. 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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