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Turkey Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Turkey Soup

Why it works: Turkey and flour work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 963 recipes. Both carry eugenol, which smells clove, spicy. The science ↓

Turkey Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the cold turkey rack, dressing, and gravy in a pot.

  2. Cover with cold water and simmer gently for 3 to 4 hours.

  3. Let it stand until the next day.

  4. Remove all the fat and skim off bits and bones.

  5. Heat the soup until it boils.

  6. Thicken slightly with flour mixed with water and season to taste.

  7. Pick off bits of turkey from the bones and add them to the soup.

  8. Boil again and serve.

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. Turkey + flourtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together963 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

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

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