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Roast Turkey served with sausage, currant jelly, stock jellies, and garnishes of parsley, lemons, lettuce, celery, and cresses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Roast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Roast

  1. Roast the turkey.

Plate and serve

  1. Link the sausage together.

  2. Arrange the sausage around the turkey on a platter.

  3. Garnish with clusters of parsley at the ends and sides.

  4. Slice lemons and arrange them decoratively.

  5. Serve with currant jelly and stock jellies on the side.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lettuce + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Parsley + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the main roasted meat, setting its proteins firm as it cooks through.
Sausage
Adds savoury, fatty flavour to the platter alongside the turkey.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and acidity to balance the rich roast meat.

The step that matters

Roast the turkey. Turkey is lean and dries out quickly. Cooking it until the centre is fully done without overcooking keeps the meat juicy and safe to eat.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, parsley, lemon, lettuce, celery):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, parsley, lemon, lettuce, celery. 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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