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Cranberry Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich

"Sliced Maple Honey Turkey makes a great sandwich on whole wheat bread with mayo and cranberry sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 97 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

1 sandwich
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Lay out the two slices of wheat bread on a clean cutting board.

  2. Spread the mayonnaise evenly over one side of each slice of bread.

  3. Spread the whole berry cranberry sauce over the mayonnaise on one slice, keeping it within the edges.

  4. Pile the shredded lettuce on the cranberry side of the same slice, then layer the sliced Butterball Maple Honey Turkey on top.

  5. Close the sandwich with the second slice, mayonnaise side down, press gently, and cut it in half diagonally to serve.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turkey + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

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

  2. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Wheat + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Lettuce + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Wheat + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, bread, honey, turkey, berry, cranberry, sauce):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bread, honey, turkey, berry, cranberry, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).