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A roasted turkey served with celery and oyster sauces, Poivrade sauce, and potato quenelles coated in fried breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Removes of Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the turkey according to your preferred method.

  2. Prepare celery sauce separately.

  3. Prepare oyster sauce separately.

Cook the stuffing and garnish

  1. Stuff the capon with truffles and roast it.

  2. Braise six pork sausages and cut them into pieces.

  3. In a bain-marie, combine sausage pieces with equal parts of braised streaky bacon, button mushrooms, and green gherkins.

  4. Pour rich Poivrade sauce over the mixture and boil for two minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the turkey with the sauces and garnish with quenelles of potatoes rolled in fried breadcrumbs.

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. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  4. Turkey + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together830 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Pork + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Provides the main roasted meat, whose juiciness depends on careful cooking.
Pork sausages
Add fat and savoury, meaty flavour to the mixture.
Streaky bacon
Adds fat and smoky, savoury flavour that carries through the dish.
Button mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy savouriness to the mixture.
Bread crumbs
Fry to a golden, crisp coating for the potato quenelles.

The step that matters

Stuffing the capon with truffles and roasting it. A stuffed bird heats slowly in its cavity, so the stuffing and the thickest meat can lag behind the rest. Check that the centre is fully cooked before serving.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, sauce, oyster, truffle, pork, mushroom, potato):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, sauce, oyster, truffle, pork, mushroom, potato. 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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