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Turkey Patties and Vol-au-vents

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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

Directions

  1. Dice the cold white meat of cooked turkey.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and nutmeg.

  3. Moisten with a rich cream sauce.

  4. Fill into patty or vol-au-vent cases.

  5. 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.

  1. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Meat + turkeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

  3. Nutmeg + creamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Turkey + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Meat + nutmegtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,656 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, turkey, cream, sauce):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Pepperfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, turkey, cream, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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