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Giblet Sauce

A sauce made from boiled chicken giblets, flour, water, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,459 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Giblet Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the giblets

  1. Boil the giblets until tender.

  2. Chop the giblets, but not very fine.

Make the sauce

  1. In the pan used to roast the chicken, add flour and let it brown while stirring constantly.

  2. Slowly add the water used to boil the giblets.

  3. Season with salt and pepper, then strain the sauce.

  4. Add the chopped giblets to the strained sauce.

  5. Serve in a sauceboat.

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. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the sauce and browns in the roasting pan for color and flavor.

The step that matters

Letting the flour brown while stirring constantly. Flour left unstirred can scorch or brown unevenly, giving a bitter taste. Constant stirring cooks the flour gently and evenly, building color and a nutty flavor before liquid is added.

“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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