Name: Turkey En Ragout
Ingredients: 1 cooked turkey; bechamel sauce; mushrooms; truffles; cockscombs; livers; artichoke bottoms

Why it works: Mushroom and truffle 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 ↓

Turkey En Ragout

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a bechamel sauce.
Cook the mushrooms, truffles, cockscombs, livers, and artichoke bottoms.
Place the cooked turkey on a serving dish.
Arrange the cooked ingredients over and around the turkey.

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.

Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,900 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together447 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Turkey + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together205 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
Truffle + artichoketop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together240 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Truffle + livertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together395 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).