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Vegetable Turkey

A baked vegetable dish made from peas, water, egg, nut butter, granola, sage, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and sage work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 204 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Vegetable Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the mixture

  1. Add water to the sifted peas, adjusting based on moisture.

  2. Mix in the beaten egg, dissolved nut butter, granola, sage, and salt.

Bake

  1. Transfer the mixture to an oiled pudding dish.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until brown and dry.

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. Peas + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 recipes

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

  2. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Butter + sagetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Peas + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sifted peas
Form the bulk of the dish and give it its main body.
Egg
Binds the mixture and sets as it bakes, holding the loaf together.
Nut butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the texture of the mixture.
Granola
Adds particles and a toasted, crisp-edged texture to the mixture.

The step that matters

Baking until brown and dry. The egg sets as its proteins coagulate in the oven, which firms the mixture. Too little baking leaves it wet and loose, while too much dries it out and makes it crumbly.

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, egg, butter):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Mintfits better
  4. Sagethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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