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Boiled Turkey

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 851 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Boiled Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff the turkey with veal stuffing and chestnuts.

  2. Truss and parboil the turkey on Saturday, saving the boiling liquid.

  3. On Sunday, reheat the turkey in the saved boiling liquid until hot.

  4. Prepare melted butter for the oyster sauce the night before.

  5. Open oysters on Sunday before church and set aside.

  6. Boil extra potatoes to serve with beef; mash the surplus while eating.

  7. Prepare curry and steep rice overnight; boil rice while eating soup and beef.

  8. Make plum pudding a week in advance and reheat before serving.

  9. Prepare sweet sauce the night before; add wine or brandy when warming.

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 + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Chestnut + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chestnut + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Turkey + chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chestnut + plumtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, veal, chestnut, oyster, butter, potato, rice):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, veal, chestnut, oyster, butter, potato, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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