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Turkey and Sausage Scallop

A baked casserole of cold minced turkey and cooked sausage topped with a crumbly crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Turkey and Sausage Scallop

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dish

  1. Butter a pudding dish.

Layer and soak

  1. Layer cold minced turkey and cooked minced sausage meat, seasoning slightly.

  2. Pour in enough gravy or weak stock to fill the dish and let it soak for a few minutes.

Top and bake

  1. Mix bread crumbs with salt, pepper, and cream or milk, then beat in the egg and melted butter until smooth.

  2. Spread the mixture half an inch thick over the top.

  3. Cover and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

  4. Uncover and brown the top.

  5. Serve immediately as the crust will fall.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. 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

Cold minced turkey
Forms the bulk of the filling and gives the dish its main meaty texture.
Cooked minced sausage meat
Adds savory flavor and fat to the meat layer.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the liquid and set with the egg to form a soft, cohesive crust.
Egg
Binds the crumb topping and helps it set as it bakes.
Gravy or weak stock
Soaks into the meat layer, adding moisture and savory flavor.
Cream or milk
Moistens the crumbs and adds richness to the topping.

The step that matters

Covering, then uncovering to brown the top. Baking covered first traps steam so the topping cooks through without drying; uncovering then lets surface moisture evaporate so the top browns through the Maillard reaction. Skipping either stage gives a soggy or pale crust.

“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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