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Boast Turkey

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and lemon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Boast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turkey and ducks as desired.

  2. Cook seasonal vegetables until tender.

  3. Make croquettes using rice or hominy and fry until golden.

  4. Serve with cranberry sauce and currant jelly.

  5. Prepare cream custard and lemon pie for dessert.

  6. Arrange fruits and nuts on a platter.

  7. Brew and serve coffee.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cranberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

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

  2. Turkey + cranberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Rice + cranberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, rice, cranberry, sauce, cream, lemon, nuts):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Currantthe original

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

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