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Turkey Scallop

A baked casserole of chopped turkey, stuffing, and bread crumbs topped with an egg and butter mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Turkey Scallop

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Layer the dish

  1. Layer bread crumbs in a buttered dish and moisten with a little milk.

  2. Add a layer of chopped turkey and some stuffing, then dot with butter and sprinkle with pepper and salt.

  3. Repeat layers until the dish is nearly full.

  4. Add hot water to the turkey gravy and pour over the layers.

Top and bake

  1. In a bowl, mix eggs, milk, melted butter, salt, and enough cracker crumbs to thicken.

  2. Spread the mixture over the top, dot with butter, and cover with a plate.

  3. Bake for 45 minutes, then remove the plate and bake for an additional 10 minutes to brown.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the topping and set into a custard-like layer when baked.
Cracker crumbs
Thicken the egg and milk mixture so the topping holds together.
Bread crumbs
Soak up liquid and give the layers body between the turkey and stuffing.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the top brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Removing the plate for the final 10 minutes. Covering the dish traps steam and keeps the top pale and moist. Removing the plate lets dry heat brown the surface, so the topping must be uncovered for the browning stage to work.

“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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