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Fricasseed Turkey or Goose Giblets

A fricassee of turkey or goose giblets simmered with herbs, mushrooms, and a thickened sauce, finished with egg yolks and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Fricasseed Turkey or Goose Giblets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald and clean the giblets.

  2. In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the giblets, parsley, green onions, thyme, hay leaf, and mushrooms.

  3. Sprinkle with flour and warm over low heat.

Cook the fricassee

  1. Moisten with stock or water, adding salt and pepper to taste.

  2. Let it stew and reduce the sauce until very thick.

  3. Stir in the egg yolks and simmer without boiling.

Serve

  1. Serve with a sprinkle of vinegar.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Thyme + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Giblets
Provide the main meat and body of the dish as they stew in the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a sauce when warmed with the butter.
Egg yolks
Enrich and thicken the sauce as they set gently with heat.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the stewed sauce.
Butter
Carries flavour and forms a roux base with the flour.

The step that matters

Stir in the egg yolks and simmer without boiling. Egg yolks begin to thicken around 65 to 70°C and curdle if they boil, which turns the smooth sauce grainy. Keep the heat low and stir constantly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, parsley, thyme, mushroom, flour, pepper, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, parsley, thyme, mushroom, flour, pepper, egg. 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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