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Roasted Turkey a LA Financiere

A roasted turkey stuffed with veal forcemeat and green truffles, seasoned with thyme, parsley, mace, pepper, salt, cayenne, and soaked in red wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Roasted Turkey a LA Financiere

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the interior of the turkey with thyme, parsley, mace, pepper, and salt.

  2. Stuff the turkey with veal forcemeat.

  3. Make an incision down each side of the breast and fill with washed and sliced green truffles.

  4. Place the turkey in a deep dish and dust with cayenne pepper.

  5. Soak the turkey in red wine for 12 hours.

Roast

  1. Cover the turkey with a sheet of buttered paper and roast it.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Thyme + red winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together749 recipes

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

  5. Turkey + thymetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the main body of the dish, carrying all the stuffing and flavourings.
Veal forcemeat
Fills the cavity, adding richness and moisture as the bird cooks.
Green truffles
Add a strong, earthy aroma that perfumes the breast meat.
Red wine
Soaks into the turkey, adding acidity and depth of flavour.
Butter
Enriches the sheet of paper covering the bird, adding fat and aiding gentle browning.

The step that matters

Soak the turkey in red wine for 12 hours. A long soak lets the wine's acidity and flavour penetrate the meat. The turkey must stay fully submerged and chilled in the dish, since leaving it too warm or too short a time gives little flavour penetration and risks spoilage.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, thyme, parsley, pepper, veal, truffle, red wine):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, thyme, parsley, pepper, veal, truffle, red wine. 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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