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Fattening Turkeys and Other Domestic Fowls with Charcoal

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and oats work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 154 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Fattening Turkeys and Other Domestic Fowls with Charcoal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Confine four turkeys in a pen.

  2. Feed them a mixture of meal, boiled potatoes, and oats.

  3. In another pen, confine four turkeys and feed them the same mixture with 1 pint of finely pulverized charcoal added.

  4. Provide a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen.

  5. Kill the turkeys on the same day to compare weights.

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. Potato + oatstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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