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Galantine of Turkey, with Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and meat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 540 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Galantine of Turkey, with Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Singe the turkey and cut off the tips of the legs and wings.

  2. Split the skin along the neck and bone the turkey completely.

  3. Remove some meat from the legs and fillets, cut into large dice, and place in a bowl.

  4. Season the diced meat and mix with double the volume of blanched bacon and a third of raw ham, then baste with Madeira wine.

  5. In a large pot, combine the turkey backbones, all bones, trimmings, and calf’s feet with vegetables, aromatics, and spices.

  6. Cover with light broth, bring to a boil, skim, and set aside.

  7. Prepare a raw mince of veal and fresh bacon, season with salt and spices, and pound well.

  8. Combine the mince with the diced turkey meat and bacon, then fill the turkey with this mixture.

  9. Truss the turkey into an oblong shape and wrap tightly in a small napkin, tying both ends securely.

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 + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

  2. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Turkey + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Turkey + vealtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Ham + vealtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

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

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