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Boiled Turkey with Celery Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and celery work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 431 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Boiled Turkey with Celery Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dress the turkey as directed in the preceding recipe.

  2. Substitute chopped celery for the oysters in the stuffing and sauce.

  3. Ensure the celery for the sauce is very white and tender.

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. Turkey + celerytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

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