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Turkey Scallop

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Turkey Scallop

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cold turkey thinly across the fiber and chop it coarsely.

  2. If desired, mix in chopped cold potatoes and small bits of cheese.

  3. Prepare gravy by simmering turkey bones in cold water for nearly an hour, then strain.

  4. Add any leftover roast gravy to the strained liquid, thicken with white flour, and bring to a boil.

  5. Cover the bottom of a bake-pan with dry bread crumbs, then layer half of the chopped turkey mixture.

  6. Add more bread crumbs, then the remaining turkey mixture.

  7. Pour the prepared gravy over the layers, ensuring everything is moist; add boiling water if needed.

  8. Top with fine bread crumbs mixed with a beaten egg and milk.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, cheese, bread, egg, milk, flour):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, cheese, bread, egg, milk, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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