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Turkey Pulled and Grilled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Turkey Pulled and Grilled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mince the white meat of cold turkey and mix it with white sauce.

  2. Score, pepper, and salt the legs, then broil them.

  3. Serve the broiled legs over the minced turkey.

  4. For deviled turkey, season the rump, gizzard, and a drumstick with salt, pepper, and cayenne, then broil.

  5. Cut the broiled pieces into small portions and pour over a mixture of mustard, melted butter, soy sauce, lemon juice, and some gravy.

  6. Mix quickly and serve hot.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Mustard + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sauce + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, sauce, pepper, butter, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

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

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