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Turkey, Stuffed with Tongue

Ensure the tongue is fully cooked before inserting it into the turkey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Turkey, Stuffed with Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the turkey and fill the empty spaces and legs with forcemeat.

  2. Insert the cooked tongue into the turkey.

  3. Cook the turkey until done, ensuring the tongue is heated through.

  4. For ordinary occasions, use sausage meat or veal stuffing without suet.

  5. Mask the dish with white sauce and garnish with lemons, parsley, and fancy shapes of cooked vegetables.

  6. Use aspic jelly if available.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + beetroottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together745 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + beetroottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together574 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turkey + parsleytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together532 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Turkey + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, sauce, lemon, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, sauce, lemon, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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