Name: Deviled Turkey Legs
Ingredients: cooked turkey legs; coarse sea salt; black pepper; mustard; oil

Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Deviled Turkey Legs

Ingredients

Directions

Score and trim the cooked turkey legs.
Season them with coarse sea salt and black pepper.
Mix mustard and oil to form a paste and rub it on the turkey legs.
Broil the legs over a clear fire, turning often.
When they are a nice brown, serve with rich brown gravy poured over them.

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.

Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,430 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,636 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Turkey + mustardtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together157 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).