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Turkey Hashed

A dish of turkey pieces simmered in stock with flour, served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Turkey Hashed

Oven, in the book's wordsA warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the turkey remnants into equal-sized pieces.

  2. Boil the bones in 1 quart of water until reduced to 1 pint.

Make the sauce

  1. Remove the bones and add turkey gravy or white stock, butter, salt, and pepper to the liquid.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the turkey pieces and sprinkle with flour.

  2. Boil once more and serve in a hot dish.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  3. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey remnants
Provide the meat that forms the main body of the hash.
Turkey gravy or white stock
Supplies liquid and savory flavor for the sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the liquid so it clings to the turkey pieces.

The step that matters

Sprinkling the flour. Flour added to hot liquid can clump if not stirred in well. Stirring it through the liquid, rather than leaving it on top, lets starch granules disperse and thicken the sauce evenly.

“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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