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Turkey Loap

A loaf made from turkey remains, bread crumbs, beaten egg, seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with salt pork, baked or steamed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and bread work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 822 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Turkey Loap

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Chop the remains of the turkey and season well with salt and pepper.

  2. Add 1 cup of soft bread crumbs and enough beaten egg to hold the mixture together.

  3. Mold the mixture into a loaf or pack it into a greased mold.

  4. Cover the top with thin slices of salt pork.

Cook

  1. Bake or steam until firm.

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. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Turkey + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together846 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the bulk of the loaf and gives it its main flavor and texture.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and soften the mixture, keeping the loaf tender rather than dry.
Egg
Binds the chopped turkey and crumbs so the loaf holds its shape when sliced.

The step that matters

Add enough beaten egg to bind the mixture. Egg proteins set when heated and glue the chopped meat and crumbs together. Too little egg leaves the loaf crumbly and likely to fall apart when cut.

“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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