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Turkey with Ragout

A roasted turkey served with a ragout of sweetbread, mushrooms, artichokes, cock's combs, and egg balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 636 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Turkey with Ragout

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the stuffed turkey until cooked through.

Make the ragout

  1. In a separate pan, combine the sweetbread, mushrooms, artichokes, cock's combs, and egg balls.

  2. Add the broth or bechamel sauce and simmer gently for 10 minutes.

  3. In a bowl, mix the eggs and cream, then add the mixture to the pan and simmer for 5 more minutes.

  4. Season with salt, lemon juice, and Cayenne pepper, then serve over the turkey.

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. Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Turkey + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Thicken the sauce and give it a rich, smooth body as they set with the cream.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, velvety texture to the sauce.
Broth or bechamel sauce
Provides the liquid base that carries the other ingredients and forms the sauce.
Sweetbread
Contributes a tender, delicate texture as the main meat component of the ragout.

The step that matters

Adding the egg and cream mixture. Eggs can curdle or scramble if the sauce boils hard after they go in. Simmering gently keeps the mixture smooth and evenly thickened.

“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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