Name: Stuffing for Roast Turkey
Ingredients: pork sausage meat; ¼ pound chopped Sultana raisins

Why it works: Pork and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,208 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Stuffing for Roast Turkey

Ingredients

pork sausage meat
¼ pound chopped Sultana raisins

Directions

Substitute pork sausage meat for the suet.
Add ¼ pound of chopped Sultana raisins.

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.

Pork + meattop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,208 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + raisintop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together484 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Pork + raisintop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together193 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).