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Dressing or Stuffing for Fowls

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Summer savory and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 237 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Dressing or Stuffing for Fowls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the crusts from the stale bread and place the bread in a dish.

  2. Pour tepid water over the bread and let it soak for 1 minute.

  3. Squeeze the soaked bread to remove excess water and place it in another dish.

  4. Lightly toss the squeezed bread with your fingers.

  5. Add pepper, salt, summer savory, sage, melted butter, and beaten egg to the bread.

  6. Mix thoroughly until well combined.

  7. For an improved flavor, incorporate chopped sausage and lemon peel.

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. Summer savory + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

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

  2. Sage + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  5. Summer savory + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together115 recipes

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

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

Swap the sage

The recipe marks sage as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, bread, pepper, summer savory, butter, egg, lemon):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, bread, pepper, summer savory, butter, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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