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Turkey with Truffles

Turkey roasted with truffles, stuffing, bacon, and truffle sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and truffle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 167 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Turkey with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the turkey

  1. Singe the turkey and crush the feet with a chopper.

  2. Draw out the sinews by squeezing them between a door.

  3. Truss the turkey like a fowl for boiling or have it prepared by the poulterer.

Roast

  1. Set the turkey on a spit and fill the crop with truffles and stuffing.

  2. Cover the breasts with bards of fat bacon and tie on paper.

  3. Roast according to the size of the turkey.

  4. A few minutes before it's done, remove the paper and bacon to brown the turkey.

Serve

  1. Serve on a dish and pour truffle sauce around it.

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 + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together167 recipes

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

  2. Turkey + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Truffle + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,490 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the stuffing while it roasts.
Truffles
Contribute a strong earthy aroma that perfumes the stuffing and the meat.
Stuffing
Fills the crop, adding moisture and bulk inside the bird as it cooks.
Fat bacon
Bastes the breasts with melting fat, keeping the lean meat moist during roasting.
Truffle sauce
Adds a rich, aromatic liquid that complements the roasted turkey at serving.

The step that matters

Browning the turkey at the end. Removing the paper and bacon too early leaves the breast pale, while removing them too late can dry the meat. Browning is driven by surface heat and sugars reacting, so timing this final stage matters.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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