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Turkey & Ham Pie

leftover tukey & ham

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and ham work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 303 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turkey + hamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together303 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Mushroom + turkeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together205 recipes

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

  5. Onion + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,619 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, mushroom, cream, turkey, ham):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Tarragonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, mushroom, cream, turkey, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).