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Cold Roast Turkey

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 73 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cold Roast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve cold roast turkey as the main dish.

  2. Prepare chicken salad using three chickens for twenty guests.

  3. Toast quail and serve on the side.

  4. Make ham croquettes and serve them warm.

  5. Serve one hundred pickled oysters as an appetizer.

  6. Prepare two moulds of Charlotte Russe for dessert.

  7. Offer pistachio cream or vanilla cream as an option.

  8. Include chocolate cake and coconut cake for dessert.

  9. Fill a basket with a variety of cakes.

  10. Serve fresh fruit alongside coffee and chocolate.

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. Pistachio + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Turkey + quailtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Chicken + quailtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chocolate + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, chicken, quail, ham, oyster, pistachio, chocolate):

  1. Coconutthe original
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Lemonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, chicken, quail, ham, oyster, pistachio, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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