Name: Turkey Patties
Ingredients: cold turkey, minced; coarse sea salt; cream or pastry; butter; light pastry for covering pattypans

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Turkey Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Mince the white part of cold turkey.
Mix the minced turkey with a little coarse sea salt and a small amount of cream or pastry.
Grease pattypans with butter and cover them with light pastry.
Fill the pattypans with the turkey mixture and bake until golden.

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.

Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,592 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
Turkey + creamtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together392 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).