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Roast Turkey

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 993 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Roast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak zwieola in 5 cups of hot water for 15 minutes.

  2. Sieve the hard-boiled eggs and add to the zwieola.

  3. Dissolve the peanut butter in water and add it to the mixture.

  4. Beat the raw eggs and mix them with the other ingredients thoroughly.

  5. If the mixture is too dry, add more water until it holds shape.

  6. Oil a piece of sheet iron with nut oil.

  7. Place a thick piece of muslin saturated with oil on the sheet iron.

  8. Shape the mixture into a turkey form on the muslin, making the breast full and high.

  9. Press the mixture together with oiled hands to prevent sticking.

  10. Take a large tablespoon of the mixture and press a stick of macaroni into the center, leaving 2 inches protruding.

  11. Shape the mixture around the macaroni to form a turkey leg, using egg white to secure it.

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. Almond + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Walnut + sagetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Almond + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  4. Walnut + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Peanut + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, walnut, peanut, butter, sage, egg):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, walnut, peanut, butter, sage, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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