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Turkey Pinions, Stewed

Stewed turkey pinions with butter, flour, stock, onions, mushrooms, capers, and parsley, served with toast garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Turkey Pinions, Stewed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the wings

  1. Remove the large wing-bone from the pinions and fold the skin over at the end.

  2. Fry the wings in a little butter until lightly browned, then dredge flour over the wings.

Stew

  1. Barely cover the wings with stock.

  2. Add parsley, a small onion stuck with a clove, and a little pepper and salt.

  3. Simmer gently for an hour.

  4. Add small onions fried in butter and chopped mushrooms.

  5. Mince capers finely and stir them into the sauce.

Serve

  1. Place the pinions in the center of a dish.

  2. Pour the sauce over the pinions.

  3. Garnish with toast.

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 + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey pinions
Provide the meat that becomes tender during slow stewing.
Flour
Dusted on the browned wings to thicken the stock into a sauce.
Butter
Browns the wings and onions, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Stock
Forms the liquid that gently cooks the wings and becomes the sauce.
Capers
Add a sharp, briny acidity that cuts through the rich sauce.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for an hour. A gentle simmer lets the connective tissue in the wings break down slowly. A hard boil toughens the meat and can reduce the sauce too quickly or make it cloudy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, butter, flour, parsley, clove, pepper, mushroom):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, butter, flour, parsley, clove, pepper, mushroom. 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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