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Boned Turkey Boiled

A boiled boned turkey seasoned with lemon, herbs, and vegetables, served with lemon, parsley, and fried bacon rolls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Boned Turkey Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Layer the turkey with mushrooms and cooked ham, then truss it for boiling.

  2. Rub the turkey breast with lemon juice.

Boil

  1. In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add celery, parsley, onion, herbs, cloves, peppercorns, and salt.

  2. Slowly cook the turkey in the boiling water for about 2.5 hours until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve garnished with lemon, parsley, and fried bacon rolls.

  2. Accompany with white sauce or other sauces like celery, chestnut, or oyster sauce.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender and moist as it cooks slowly.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture as they release juices into the dish during cooking.
Cooked ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour that seasons the turkey from within.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the turkey.

The step that matters

Slowly cook the turkey in the boiling water. Once the water is boiling, the heat should be kept gentle so the turkey cooks through and becomes tender. A hard, rapid boil can toughen the meat and cause it to dry out.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, mushroom, ham, lemon, celery, parsley, thyme):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, mushroom, ham, lemon, celery, parsley, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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