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Stuffing for Hare or Turkey

A savory stuffing made with beef suet, bread crumbs, herbs, and optional eggs, milk, butter, and shallot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Stuffing for Hare or Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, combine the beef suet, parsley, thyme, pepper, coarse sea salt, spices, and bread crumbs.

  2. Add 1-2 eggs and a little milk, mixing until well combined.

  3. If desired, add a small bit of butter and pound the mixture in a mortar for a short time.

Use

  1. Use this stuffing for baked pike, roasted or boiled turkey, or roasted hare.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the stuffing body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and help it hold its shape.
Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the stuffing moist and rich in flavor.

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, parsley, pepper, bread, egg, milk, butter):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, parsley, pepper, bread, egg, milk, butter. 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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