Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Turkey Scollop
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Remove the meat from leftover cold, boiled, or roasted turkey and chop it finely.
In a buttered pudding dish, layer crackers or bread crumbs and moisten slightly with milk.
Add a layer of minced turkey, bits of stuffing, pepper, salt, and small pieces of butter.
Repeat layers of crackers and turkey until the dish is nearly full.
Before the last layer, pour in the turkey gravy; dilute with hot water if necessary and add Worcestershire sauce, catsup, and butter.
Prepare a crust of cracker crumbs soaked in warm milk, seasoned with salt, and beaten with 2 eggs until light.
Spread the crust smoothly over the scollop and dot with butter.
Cover with a deep dish to retain steam and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 45 minutes.
Remove the cover a few minutes before serving.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Bread + milktop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,466 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together822 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together540 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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