Name: Turkey with Ragout
Ingredients: 1 turkey; throat sweetbread, sliced; white button mushrooms, stewed; artichoke bottoms, boiled and halved; cock's-combs, boiled; egg balls, scalded

Why it works: Mushroom and artichoke work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 447 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Turkey with Ragout

Ingredients

Directions

Stuff the turkey in the traditional way and boil it.
Prepare the sauce by combining the sweetbread, stewed mushrooms, halved artichoke bottoms, boiled cock's-combs, and scalded egg balls.
Pour the sauce over the turkey 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.

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).
Artichoke + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together633 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mushroom + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,987 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Turkey + artichoketop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15 recipes

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