Name: Stuffing for Chicken or Turkey
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons melted butter; 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup coarse bread crumbs

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffing for Chicken or Turkey

Ingredients

4 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup coarse bread crumbs

Directions

Make the stuffing

Melt the butter in a pan.
In a bowl, combine the melted butter, bread crumbs, poultry seasoning, and salt, and mix thoroughly.

Stuff the bird

Stuff the mixture into the neck and lower openings of the chicken or turkey.

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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Butter: Adds fat and moisture, carrying the seasoning and helping the crumbs brown.
Bread crumbs: Provide the body of the stuffing and soak up the melted butter.
Poultry seasoning: Adds the herb and savory aroma that flavors the stuffing.

“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.