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Giblet Pie

A pie filled with stewed chicken giblets seasoned with pepper, coarse sea salt, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Giblet Pie

Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Giblet Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Stew the gizzards, livers, necks, legs, and first joint of wings in just enough water until tender.

  2. Season the stew with pepper, coarse sea salt, and butter.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line the sides of a deep dish with a rich pie crust.

  2. Pour the seasoned stew into the dish.

  3. Cover the pie with a crust.

  4. Slit the top of the crust.

  5. Bake.

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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Explore the science

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. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Chicken + livertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together383 recipes

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

  4. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Liver + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,375 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken gizzards, livers, necks, legs, and wing joints
Provide the rich, savory meat base of the filling that becomes tender through stewing.
Rich pie crust
Forms the structure holding the filling, browning as it bakes.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the seasoned stew.

The step that matters

Slit the top of the crust. Cutting vents in the top crust lets steam escape during baking, so the filling does not build pressure and push through or make the crust soggy.

“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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