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Giblet Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Giblet Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large pot, bring 4 quarts of cold water to a boil.

  2. Skim off any scum, then add the onion, cloves, mace, black pepper, allspice, and salt.

  3. Cover and simmer gently for about 2.5 hours until the giblets are tender.

  4. Remove the giblets and thicken the broth with flour and butter.

  5. Boil the sauce for 30 minutes until it thickens slightly, then strain it into a clean pot.

  6. Cut the giblets into bite-sized pieces and return them to the sauce.

  7. Stir in the lemon juice and mushroom catsup.

  8. Serve the sauce over sippets of bread in a soup dish.

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. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Allspice + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,083 recipes

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

  3. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Mace + allspicetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, clove, allspice, flour, butter, lemon, mushroom):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, clove, allspice, flour, butter, lemon, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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