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Clear Giblet Soup

A clear soup made from goose giblets, butter, onion, garlic, herbs, celery, carrot, and seasonings, finished with Madeira and Tabasco.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Clear Giblet Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Clean the goose giblets and chop them small.

  2. In a stew pan, melt the butter and fry the giblets with the shredded onion until pale golden.

  3. Add the marsala and beef consommé, reducing to a glaze.

Simmer and strain

  1. Add the onion, garlic, sweet herbs, celery, carrot, peppercorns, sugar, and salt.

  2. Simmer for 2 hours to extract the flavor.

  3. Strain the liquid, color it with caramel, and let it cool.

Finish and serve

  1. Skim off the grease, clarify if necessary, and stir in the Madeira and Tabasco.

  2. Serve very hot.

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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Clove + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Goose giblets
Provide the main meaty flavor that the broth is built on.
Beef consommé
Supplies the savory liquid base and concentrated beefy flavor.
Marsala
Adds sweet, fortified wine depth that deepens the broth as it reduces.
Butter
Carries the frying of the giblets and adds richness and browning.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness that builds the savory background of the soup.

The step that matters

Skim off the grease before finishing. Fat from the goose rises to the surface during simmering and can make the clear broth greasy and cloudy if not removed before serving.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, beef, garlic, celery, carrot, sugar):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, beef, garlic, celery, carrot, sugar. 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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