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Broiled Tenderloin of Turkey

Broiled slices of turkey breast seasoned with coarse sea salt and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,592 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Broiled Tenderloin of Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut slices from the breast of a raw turkey.

  2. Sprinkle a small quantity of coarse sea salt over the slices.

  3. Place the slices on a double broiler.

Broil

  1. Broil slowly until they are light brown, basting often with butter while cooking.

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 + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw turkey breast
Forms the main lean protein that cooks, browns and becomes tender when heated gently.
Butter
Adds fat that carries heat, keeps the surface moist and helps the slices brown and taste rich.

The step that matters

Broil slowly and baste often with butter. Turkey breast is very lean and dries out quickly under high heat. Slow cooking heats the meat through gently, while basting with butter keeps the surface moist and encourages even light browning.

“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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