Name: Devilled Turkey
Ingredients: cold roast turkey legs; coarse sea salt; cayenne pepper; mustard

Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Devilled Turkey

Ingredients

cold roast turkey legs
coarse sea salt
cayenne pepper
mustard

Directions

Score the cold roast turkey legs well.
Season them with coarse sea salt, cayenne pepper, and mustard.
Broil the seasoned turkey legs until heated through.
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.

Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,430 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,636 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Turkey + mustardtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together157 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).