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Hashed Turkey

A dish of finely chopped cold roast turkey seasoned with pepper and salt, warmed in gravy and served on buttered toast with optional poached eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,592 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Hashed Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cold roast turkey finely.

  2. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Warm and serve

  1. Warm the turkey in the gravy.

  2. If there's not enough gravy, add a little water and a piece of butter.

  3. Serve on slices of buttered toast.

  4. Top with poached eggs if desired.

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 + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  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

Cold roast turkey
Provides the main body of the dish, held together in the warm gravy.
Gravy
Adds moisture and savoury flavour as the turkey warms through.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the gravy and the buttered toast.
Eggs
Add richness and a soft, runny yolk when poached on top.

“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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