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Hashed Turkey

A savory turkey hash made by simmering a turkey carcass with water, seasoning, and diced turkey and mushrooms, finished with sherry and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Hashed Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stock

  1. Heat the turkey carcass and stuffing with enough water to cover it by 2 inches in a saucepan.

  2. Cook slowly for 2 hours.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Make the hash

  1. Season the strained liquid with onion juice, chopped parsley, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Cut the turkey meat into small dice and quarter the mushrooms.

  3. Stir the diced turkey and quartered mushrooms into the sauce.

  4. Heat the mixture until scalding.

  5. Add the sherry and lemon juice.

  6. Serve.

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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 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 carcass
Simmered slowly to release flavor and gelatin into the liquid that becomes the base.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and a tender, meaty texture to the hash.
Sherry
Adds aromatic depth and a touch of sweetness and acidity to the finished sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the rich sauce.

The step that matters

Cook slowly for 2 hours. A gentle, long simmer extracts flavor and body from the carcass gradually. A rapid boil can make the liquid cloudy and greasy and can toughen the meat.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, parsley, pepper, mushroom, sherry, lemon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, parsley, pepper, mushroom, sherry, lemon. 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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