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Turkey Stuffing

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and chestnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 102 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Turkey Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak stale sweet bread in cold water and drain well.

  2. Let the bread stand for at least 1 hour.

  3. Add plenty of butter, pepper, coarse sea salt, and sage.

  4. Incorporate boiled, peeled, and chopped chestnuts into the mixture.

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. Sage + chestnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Pepper + chestnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Bread + chestnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, pepper, sage):

  1. Chestnutthe original
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Lima beansfits less well

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

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