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Turkey Hash

A stew of turkey pieces simmered with water, seasoning, and gravy, thickened with flour and cream, served over toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and bread work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 822 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Turkey Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Make the hash

  1. In a stew-pan, combine turkey pieces, water, salt, and pepper.

  2. Add the leftover dressing and gravy.

  3. Boil for 20 minutes, adding more boiling water if too thick.

  4. If too thin, mix flour smoothly in cream and add to the stew.

Serve

  1. Serve the hash over toasted bread immediately.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Provides the main protein and bulk of the hash.
Dressing and gravy from turkey
Adds moisture, savory flavor, and body to the stew.
Flour
Thickens the liquid as it is mixed into the cream and stirred into the stew.
Cream
Adds richness and smoothness, carrying the flour into the stew without lumps.

The step that matters

Mix the flour smoothly into the cream. Flour mixed directly into hot liquid clumps, because its starch granules hydrate unevenly. Whisking it into cold or room-temperature cream first disperses the particles so the thickened sauce stays smooth.

“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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