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Roast Turkey with Truffles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and truffle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 167 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Roast Turkey with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean fresh truffles in cold water using a soft brush.

  2. Remove canned truffles from their liquid and reserve the liquid for the sauce.

  3. Keep the finest truffles whole and chop the others very finely.

  4. Chop or pound the white fat of bacon until it equals the amount of chopped truffles.

  5. Prepare the turkey and stuff it with the truffles and bacon fat mixture.

  6. Roast the turkey according to your preferred method, using the reserved liquid to make the sauce.

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 + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together167 recipes

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

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

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