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Turkey, with Celery-sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and bread work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 822 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Turkey, with Celery-sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Draw the turkey and fill its breast with bread-crumb stuffing or minced meat.

  2. Truss the turkey securely, adjusting its paws as needed.

  3. Place the turkey in a braising pan and spread with raw fat trimmings and minced vegetables.

  4. Moisten the turkey to half its height with white stock or broth and a little white wine.

  5. Bring the liquid to a boil, then reduce the heat to a slow simmer.

  6. Baste the turkey occasionally to monitor its cooking progress.

  7. At serving time, drain the turkey on a baking sheet, untruss it, and serve with celery sauce.

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 + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Turkey + celerytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Turkey + white winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  4. Bread + white winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together827 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Bread + celerytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, bread, white wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, bread, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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