Name: Fat Livers and Gizzards
Ingredients: gizzards; livers; truffle nails; gratin; puff pastry; poultry fat; tomato sauce

Why it works: Liver and truffle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 395 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Fat Livers and Gizzards

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gizzards and let them cool.
Lard the gizzards or slash them and fill the slashes with gratin.
Lard the livers with truffle nails.
Cover a flat dish with gratin and create a puff pastry border.
Crisp the small wings in poultry fat and place one under each liver and gizzard alternately over the gratin.
Roast them on a spit if desired.
Prepare a tomato sauce and braise the liver and gizzards.
Glaze them and dish the ragout, layering the side-bones and intermixing the livers and gizzards.

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.

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.

Liver + truffletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together395 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Truffle + tomatotop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together242 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Liver + tomatotop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together146 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Truffle + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes