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To Bone and Stuff a Turkey

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

To Bone and Stuff a Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Singe, wash, and dry the turkey skin.

  2. Cut down the center of the back from head to tail.

  3. Scrape the flesh from the bones using a dull knife, working from back to breast.

  4. Remove the shoulder blades and bones from the upper wing and leg joints.

  5. Be careful not to cut the skin; loosen it from the bone with your fingers.

  6. If the turkey is not drawn, cut around the vent, lift off the skeleton, and remove the contents.

  7. Wash the skeleton pieces and cook in slightly salted water for 3-4 hours to extract flavor and gelatin.

  8. Fill the boned turkey with your choice of meats and ingredients.

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. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Turkey + quailtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Quail + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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