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Turkey, with Sausage Meat and Tongue

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Turkey, with Sausage Meat and Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the turkey.

  2. Fill the inside with sausage meat, adding the boiled tongue if using.

  3. Cut the tongue to the length of the turkey and wrap it in a spare fowl if available.

  4. Surround the tongue with sausage meat.

  5. Add truffles if desired.

  6. If boiling, cover the turkey with fat bacon and lemon slices tied in a cloth.

  7. Pour your chosen sauce over 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.

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

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

  2. Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Turkey + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together167 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Turkey + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Red currantfits about as well
  4. Grapefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, meat, truffle, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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