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Braised Roast Turkey, Capon, or Fowl

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Braised Roast Turkey, Capon, or Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the onions, celery, carrot, turnip, and parsley.

  2. Lay the vegetables and peach leaves on the paper and moisten with sweet oil.

  3. Truss the bird as for boiling and cover the breast with bacon slices.

  4. Place the bird on the vegetables and cover the breast with lime slices.

  5. Tie the paper around the bird with string and moisten it with ghee.

  6. Spit the bird carefully and roast it before a clear fire at a moderate distance.

  7. Roast for three hours.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together547 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, celery, carrot, turnip, parsley, lime, ghee):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, celery, carrot, turnip, parsley, lime, ghee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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