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A Nice Hash

A hash of turkey, eggs, and potatoes cooked with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

A Nice Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the turkey, eggs, and potatoes very fine.

Make the hash

  1. In a pan, combine the chopped ingredients with butter.

  2. Heat the mixture thoroughly without cooking it.

  3. Ensure the butter melts through the hash.

Serve

  1. Serve hot, optionally adding sweet cream.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  4. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 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 turkey
Provides the main protein and bulk of the hash.
Hard boiled eggs
Add body and richness to the mixture as they break down slightly.
Potatoes
Bind the chopped ingredients together and add starchy substance.
Butter
Adds fat and moisture, carrying flavour and keeping the hash from drying out.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture thoroughly without cooking it. The meat and eggs are already cooked, so the goal is only to warm them through. Overheating toughens the turkey and eggs and can dry the potatoes, so gentle heat keeps the texture tender and moist.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, egg, butter, pepper, cream. 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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