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Stuffed Turnips

Stuffed turnips are turnips filled with sausage and topped with white sauce, tomatoes, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Turnips

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the turnips

  1. Peel and wash the turnips.

  2. Cut a slice off the bottom of each turnip so they stand upright.

  3. Scoop out the center of each turnip.

Stuff and steam

  1. Remove the sausage meat from the skins and fill the cavities of the turnips with the meat.

  2. Steam the stuffed turnips for one hour.

Serve

  1. Place the turnips on a flat dish and pour the white sauce over them.

  2. Garnish with sliced tomatoes and parsley, and serve hot.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Turnip + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Turnip + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

White turnips
Form the hollow shell that holds the stuffing and becomes tender when steamed.
Sausage
Provides the savory, fatty filling that flavors the turnip as it cooks.
White sauce
Adds moisture and a smooth, creamy coating over the cooked turnips.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, pepper, sauce, parsley):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turnip, pepper, sauce, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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