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Mixed Hash

A hash of cooked turkey with potatoes, mushrooms, stock and white wine, served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,765 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Mixed Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Heat the butter in a pan.

  2. Add the browned flour, stock, and white wine.

  3. Stir until it starts to cook.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the small potatoes and cook for 20 minutes.

  2. Once the potatoes are cooked, add the hashed turkey and mushrooms.

  3. Serve the mixture on toast.

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. White wine + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Potato + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Turkey + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hashed turkey
Provides the main protein and makes up the bulk of the dish.
Browned flour
Thickens the liquid into a sauce as it cooks.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and cooks the flour before the liquids go in.
White wine
Adds acidity and depth to the sauce.
Small potatoes
Add starch and body, making the mixture more filling.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and a tender texture.

The step that matters

Stir until the sauce starts to cook. Constant stirring as the flour mixture heats keeps it smooth and prevents lumps. Flour needs to be fully incorporated into the liquid to thicken evenly, and stirring spreads the heat so the sauce does not scorch on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, butter, white wine, mushroom, flour):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, butter, white wine, mushroom, flour. 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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