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Eoast Turkey

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Eoast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the bread crumbs, suet, parsley, marjoram, savory, thyme, salt, pepper, and beaten egg.

  2. Mix well without adding water; ensure the crumbs are very fine.

  3. If desired, add chopped onion for flavor.

  4. Prepare the turkey by picking, singeing, and drawing it carefully.

  5. Make a lengthwise cut in the back of the neck to draw out the windpipe and crop.

  6. Cut inside the right thigh down to the vent, avoiding cutting into the entrails.

  7. Loosen the liver and heart from the carcass through the neck opening.

  8. Insert your hand into the body opening to loosen and gently pull out the entrails.

  9. Carefully separate the liver and heart, avoiding the gall bladder, and squeeze the heart to remove any blood clots.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Summer savory + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

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

  3. Marjoram + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
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    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, parsley, marjoram, summer savory, thyme, pepper, egg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, parsley, marjoram, summer savory, thyme, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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