Name: Boiled Turkey Salad
Ingredients: cooked turkey meat, chopped; celery, chopped; dressing (as prepared above)

Why it works: Turkey and meat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 540 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Boiled Turkey Salad

Ingredients

cooked turkey meat, chopped
celery, chopped
dressing (as prepared above)

Directions

Prepare the dressing as directed in the previous section.
Chop the cooked turkey meat and mix it with the chopped celery.
Combine the turkey and celery with the dressing.

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.

Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together540 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Turkey + celerytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together431 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Meat + celerytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,880 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).