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Giblet Pie

A savory pie made with goose or duck giblets, onions, herbs, and optional meats, baked and finished with cream.

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 stew liquid to the dish.

  3. Optionally, add sliced potatoes for extra flavor.

  4. Bake the pie until cooked through.

  5. Once baked, pour in the cream.

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. 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 filling.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aroma to the stewing liquid.
Cream
Added after baking to give the finished pie a smooth, rich moisture.
Liquid from the stew
Carries flavor and moisture from the stewed giblets into the pie.

The step that matters

Let the giblets cool before assembling. Cooling the stewed giblets before they go into the pie keeps the dish from becoming watery and lets the flavors settle, so the filling holds together better when baked.

“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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