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Giblet Pie

A savory pie made with goose or duck giblets, water, onion, black pepper, sweet herbs, and optional meat, finished with cream and potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Giblet Pie

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Giblet Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the giblets

  1. Clean the giblets thoroughly.

  2. Stew the giblets with water, onion, black pepper, and sweet herbs until nearly done.

  3. Let the giblets cool.

Assemble and bake

  1. If needed, layer beef, veal, or mutton steaks at the bottom of the pie dish.

  2. Add the liquor from the stew to the dish.

  3. Bake the pie until cooked through.

  4. Pour in the cream after baking.

  5. Add sliced potatoes for extra flavor.

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 + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Goose or duck giblets
Provide the main meat and rich flavor of the pie.
Beef, veal, or mutton steaks
Add meaty body and savory depth beneath the giblets.
Liquor from the stew
Adds moisture and concentrated stock flavor to the filling.
1 cup cream
Adds richness and a silky texture to the pie.
Sliced potatoes
Add starchy bulk and mild sweetness to the filling.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, beef, cream, potato):

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits less well
  4. Carrotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, beef, cream, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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