Name: Stuffed Pig
Ingredients: dressing for turkey (without oysters); chestnuts (optional); 1 lemon

Why it works: Turkey and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Stuffed Pig

Ingredients

dressing for turkey (without oysters)
chestnuts (optional)
1 lemon

Directions

Prepare dressing as you would for turkey, omitting oysters.
If desired, substitute chestnuts for oysters.
Bake the stuffed pig slowly until fully cooked.
Transfer to a large platter and place a lemon in its mouth.

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.

Turkey + chestnuttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together136 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Chestnut + lemontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together381 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Turkey + oystertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together473 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Turkey + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together464 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Oyster + chestnuttop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together119 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).