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Turkey with Ragout

A roasted turkey served with a ragout of sweetbread, mushrooms, artichokes, cocks combs, egg balls, and a béchamel or veal stock base.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 636 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Turkey with Ragout

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the turkey

  1. Stuff the turkey and boil it.

Make the sauce

  1. For the sauce, stew sweetbread slices, mushrooms, artichoke halves, cocks combs, and egg balls together.

  2. If using veal stock, add it to the ingredients and boil for 10 minutes.

  3. Add a mixture of eggs and cream, simmer for 5 more minutes.

  4. Season with salt, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper before serving.

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. Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Turkey + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Thicken the sauce gently as they set, and give it a richer body.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce.
White button mushrooms
Contribute savoury, earthy flavour and bulk to the ragout.
Sweetbread slices
Provide a tender, creamy texture that stands out in the stew.

The step that matters

Add the egg and cream mixture. Eggs thicken when heated but can scramble and curdle if the sauce boils hard. Keep the heat low and simmer gently so the sauce stays smooth.

“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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