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Turkey, Stuffed with Chicken

A turkey stuffed with a boned chicken and sausage meat, then roasted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and chicken work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 688 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Turkey, Stuffed with Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the birds

  1. Bone the chicken without damaging the skin.

  2. Draw the legs and wings inside the chicken.

Stuff and truss

  1. Fill the chicken with freshly made, nicely seasoned sausage meat.

  2. Place the chicken inside the boned turkey.

  3. Fill all empty spaces in the turkey with sausage meat and truss it firmly.

Roast and carve

  1. Cover the turkey with buttered paper.

  2. Roast the turkey slowly in front of a clear fire, basting liberally.

  3. Carve the turkey by cutting across the breast for even servings.

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 + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Fills the birds, adding seasoning and moisture to the surrounding meat as it cooks.
Butter
Used to coat the paper covering the turkey, helping it brown and stay moist.
1 young chicken
Boned and stuffed inside the turkey, so its tender meat adds flavour to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Roast the turkey slowly, basting liberally. Slow roasting with a buttered paper cover lets the large bird cook through evenly while the basting keeps the outer meat from drying out and encourages gentle browning.

“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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