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Boned Turkey

A boiled turkey meat loaf made by shredding, seasoning, and pressing the meat into a loaf shape.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,636 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Boned Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the turkey

  1. Boil the turkey in minimal water until the bones can be easily separated from the meat.

  2. Remove all the skin.

  3. Slice the meat, mixing the light and dark parts together.

  4. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.

  5. Keep the boiling liquid warm.

Shape and press

  1. Pour the warm liquid over the meat, mixing well.

  2. Shape the mixture like a loaf of bread.

  3. Wrap it in a cloth.

  4. Press it with a heavy weight for a few hours.

  5. Cut into thin slices when serving.

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. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Provides the meat that forms the body of the loaf and sets firm once pressed and cooled.

The step that matters

Pressing the loaf under a heavy weight. Pressing squeezes out excess liquid and pushes the meat fibers together, so the loaf holds its shape and slices cleanly rather than crumbling.

“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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