Why it works: Turkey and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Breakfast for 12 or More Persons
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare cold meat with vinaigrette.
Make potted venison and pickled turkey.
Prepare oyster loaves and lobster patties.
Preserve rabbit and toss calf's liver.
Kipper mackerel and prepare coquilles of fowl.
Broil pigeons and make croquettes of prawns.
Poach eggs and sauté spinach.
Toss perch and prepare poulet a la chipolata.
Make a raised pie of ham and salad of pike.
Cook oysters with macaroni and artichokes with gravy.
Serve candied and fresh fruits with biscuits.
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.
-
Turkey + rabbittop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together57 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
-
Venison + oystertop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together47 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
-
Meat + rabbittop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together315 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
-
Oyster + lobstertop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together255 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
-
Meat + turkeytop 13% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together540 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
You might also like
The free Flavor Lab newsletter: one surprising pairing a week and the molecular reason it works, in 60 seconds. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.
Lobster Sauce174 recipes
Lobster Croquettes99 recipes
Turkey Soup71 recipes
Artichoke Soup55 recipes