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Spiced Salt, for Stuffings

A blend of powdered herbs and fine salt used as a seasoning for poultry or other stuffing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram 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 ↓

Spiced Salt, for Stuffings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine all dried herbs with fine salt in a bowl and mix thoroughly until well combined.

  2. Transfer the mixture into bottles.

  3. Seal the bottles tightly with corks.

  4. Store in a cool, dry place for use in stuffing.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Nutmeg + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Clove + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Fine salt
Carries the dried herbs and spices evenly and acts as the base seasoning of the blend.
Powdered cloves
Adds a warm, pungent aroma that flavours the stuffing.
Powdered nutmeg
Adds a warm, sweet aroma to the blend.
Powdered thyme
Adds an earthy, herbal aroma suited to stuffing.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, clove, pepper, marjoram):

  1. Winter savoryfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, clove, pepper, marjoram. 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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