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Turkey Scallop

A baked casserole of chopped turkey, stuffing, and gravy topped with a crumbly crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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.

Assemble

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

  2. In a buttered dish, layer cracker or bread crumbs and moisten slightly with milk.

  3. Spread a layer of minced turkey, bits of stuffing, salt, pepper, and small pieces of butter.

  4. Repeat layers until the dish is nearly full.

  5. Pour in the turkey gravy, diluted with hot water if needed, and seasoned with Worcestershire sauce and catsup.

Make the crust and bake

  1. Prepare a crust of cracker crumbs soaked in warm milk, seasoned with salt, and beaten eggs.

  2. Spread the crust smoothly over the top and dot with butter.

  3. Bake until golden 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 + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together281 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey meat
Provides the main protein and bulk that makes up the body of the dish.
Eggs
Bind the crumb crust and help it set into a firm, sliceable top when baked.
Cracker or bread crumbs
Absorb milk and gravy, giving the layers structure and a soft, cohesive texture.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs and crust, adding softness as the dish bakes.
Turkey gravy
Adds moisture and savory depth that soaks into the layers during baking.

The step that matters

Spreading the crust and baking until golden brown. The egg and milk crust needs to set fully in the oven; underbaking leaves it wet and loose, while overbaking dries the layers beneath it.

“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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