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Giblet Pie

The giblets must be fresh and well stewed.

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

Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Giblet Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and blanch the giblets, wings, feet, head, and neck in boiling water. Remove the skin from the feet and beak.

  2. In a stewpan, melt ½ cup of butter with the sliced onion, bay leaf, a pinch of coarse sea salt, pepper, and sugar until the onion is brown.

  3. Add the giblets and head (cut in half) to the stewpan and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  4. Pour in nearly 1 quart of boiling water and let it stew gently for 2 hours. Remove from heat and let cool.

  5. In a pie dish, place a piece of steak at the bottom, then layer the giblets and liver on top, followed by another piece of steak.

  6. Add the liquor from the stewed giblets, season, and cover with pie paste.

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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Liver + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,420 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, butter, pepper, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, butter, pepper, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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