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Giblet Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 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 9,057 recipes mention both. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Giblet Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald and skin the claws and ends of the giblets, then wash them in cold water.

  2. Blanch the giblets in boiling water for 5 minutes.

  3. Place them in cold water, wash, and scrape them clean.

  4. Drain the giblets.

  5. Cut the giblets into pieces about 1.5 inches long.

  6. Put the giblet pieces into a stewpan.

  7. Wash the celery in cold water.

  8. Wash and scrape the carrot clean.

  9. Wash and peel the turnip and onions.

  10. Add the vegetables to the giblets in the stewpan.

  11. Add the cloves, mace, and bouquet garni to the stewpan.

  12. Pour in the second white stock.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,810 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, carrot, turnip, onion, clove, parsley, thyme):

  1. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  2. Winter savorybetter flavor fit
  3. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, carrot, turnip, onion, clove, parsley, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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