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Turkey Patties

Turkey patties made with puff pastry, minced turkey, grated ham, butter or gravy, thick cream, lemon rind, white pepper, sea salt, and mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Turkey Patties

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Turkey Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the pastry

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line patty pans with puff pastry.

  3. Bake until golden.

  4. Remove from the oven.

Make the filling and fill

  1. Gently stew minced turkey and grated ham in melted butter or gravy until just covered.

  2. Stir in thick cream, grated lemon rind, white pepper, coarse sea salt, and powdered mace.

  3. Ensure the mixture is thick and do not overfill the patties.

  4. Fill each patty with a hot savory mixture.

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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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.

  1. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. White pepper + macetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

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

  4. Turkey + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the crisp, flaky, golden case that holds the filling.
Minced cold cooked turkey
Provides the main savory meat body of the filling.
Grated ham
Adds salty, savory depth to the meat filling.
Thick cream
Enriches the filling and gives it a smooth, rich texture.
Melted butter or gravy
Supplies moisture and fat so the turkey stews without drying out.

The step that matters

Keep the filling thick and do not overfill. A thin or excess filling releases liquid as it heats, which soaks the pastry and can make it soggy and cause it to spill or bubble out during baking.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, ham, butter, cream, lemon, mace):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, ham, butter, cream, lemon, mace. 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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