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Hashing Poultry and Game

A hash of turkey pieces cooked with gravy, lemon pickle, lemon slice, and mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and meat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 540 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Hashing Poultry and Game

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin from the turkey pieces to avoid greasy gravy.

  2. In a stew pan, combine turkey, gravy, lemon pickle, lemon slice, and ground mace.

  3. Bring to a boil and cook for 6-7 minutes.

  4. Transfer to a serving dish.

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. Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + macetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,315 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Turkey + macetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together254 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Turkey + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Meat + macetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey meat
Provides the main protein, which firms and turns tender as it simmers in the gravy.
Gravy
Supplies the liquid and body that bind the hash and keep the meat moist.
Lemon pickle
Adds sharp acidity that brightens the rich, savory flavour of the gravy.
Ground mace
Contributes a warm, aromatic flavour that complements the poultry.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil and cook for 6-7 minutes. Boiling vigorously can toughen the turkey and make the gravy break or reduce unevenly. Keeping the cook time short and controlled helps the meat stay tender while it heats through.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, meat, mace):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Applefits about as well
  3. Currantfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, meat, mace. 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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