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Marbled Turkey, Pressed

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and currant work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Marbled Turkey, Pressed

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turkey as usual for pressing.

  2. Keep the dark and white meat separate.

  3. In a mold, layer the dark meat first, followed by the light meat.

  4. Slice with a sharp knife and serve with currant jelly.

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. Turkey + curranttop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together68 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

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