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Fricasseed Turkey or Goose Giblets

A savory stew of turkey or goose giblets simmered with butter, herbs, mushrooms, and egg yolks.

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 pick the giblets.

  2. In a saucepan, combine giblets, butter, parsley, green onions, thyme, bay leaf, and mushrooms.

  3. Warm over low heat.

  4. Sprinkle with flour.

Make the stew

  1. Moisten with stock or water.

  2. Add salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Let stew and reduce the sauce until very thick.

  4. Stir in the egg yolks.

  5. Simmer without boiling.

  6. Serve with a sprinkling 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 from turkey or goose
Provide the main meat and rich, savory flavor of the stew.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor through the stew.
Flour
Thickens the stew's liquid as it cooks into a sauce.
Egg yolks
Enrich and thicken the sauce, giving it a smooth, velvety body.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and a tender texture to the stew.

The step that matters

Simmer without boiling. Once egg yolks are stirred in, boiling can curdle them and make the sauce grainy. Keeping the heat gentle keeps the sauce smooth.

Swap the onion

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

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

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