Name: Turkey Patties and Vol-au-vents
Ingredients: cold cooked turkey; salt; nutmeg; rich cream sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Turkey Patties and Vol-au-vents

Ingredients

cold cooked turkey
salt
nutmeg
rich cream sauce

Directions

Cut the cold cooked turkey into small dice.
Season with salt and nutmeg.
Moisten with a rich cream sauce.
Fill into patty or vol-au-vent cases.
Serve immediately.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Nutmeg + creamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,920 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Turkey + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together257 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Turkey + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together531 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Nutmeg + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,244 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).