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Cold Turkey a LA Grande Duchesse

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Cold Turkey a LA Grande Duchesse

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turkey by singeing, cleaning, and removing the entrails and bones.

  2. Stuff the turkey, sew it up, and truss it for boiling.

  3. Dip the feet in boiling water, remove the skin, cut off sinews, and shorten the toes.

  4. Tie the turkey in a well-buttered cloth and boil in stock with vegetables and spices for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  5. Once cooked, remove the turkey, let it cool, and remove the strings.

  6. Mask the turkey with white chaudfroid sauce, applying 2-3 coats.

  7. When the sauce is set, lightly cover with aspic jelly and sprinkle with shredded pistachio nuts.

  8. Once the aspic is set, garnish the turkey with ornamentally cut aspic pieces and arrange crayfish, prawns, truffle, and pate de foie gras on skewers on the breast.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Basil + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  3. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Marjoram + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, carrot, celery, basil, marjoram, thyme, parsley):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, carrot, celery, basil, marjoram, thyme, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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