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Wild Turkey Stuffed with Truffles

A wild turkey stuffed with a truffle, egg, onion, and bread mixture, baked with pork fat and olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Wild Turkey Stuffed with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the turkey inside with soda and water.

  2. Rub the inside with salt.

  3. Cover the whole breast with a sheet of pork fat.

Make and stuff

  1. Prepare the stuffing by frying truffles, eggs, onion, salt, cayenne pepper, butter, and bread together.

  2. Sprinkle the stuffing with browned flour.

  3. Stuff the turkey with the prepared dressing.

Bake

  1. Bake the turkey, basting frequently.

  2. Cook for 20 minutes per pound.

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.

Explore the science

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  3. Turkey + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together830 recipes

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

  4. Pork + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  5. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Truffle peelings
Adds a concentrated earthy aroma to the stuffing.
Eggs
Bind the stuffing and set as it cooks, giving it body.
Bread
Soaks up fat and juices, giving the stuffing a soft, moist texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness, moisture and flavour to the stuffing.
Browned flour
Thickens the stuffing and adds a toasted, nutty colour and flavour.
Pork fat
Covers the breast to add fat that bastes the meat and helps keep it moist.

The step that matters

Bake the turkey, basting frequently.. Frequent basting spreads melted fat and juices over the surface, keeping the meat moist and helping the skin brown evenly. Dry heat without basting can leave the breast dry before the centre is cooked through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, pork, pepper, truffle, egg, bread, butter):

  1. Sagefits about as well
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

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

“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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