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Giblet Stew

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Giblet Stew

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the steak into pieces larger than for a pie.

  2. Season the steak with salt, pepper, nutmeg, marjoram, thyme, and lemon rind.

  3. Place the steak in a stewpan, add giblets on top, and small meatballs.

  4. Chop the pickled walnut and add it to the stewpan.

  5. Prepare the neck skin by filling it with forced meat and hard-boiled eggs, then tie it off.

  6. Add the filled neck to the stewpan and simmer until done.

  7. Remove the neck, slice it evenly, and mix flour and lemon juice in a bowl.

  8. Stir the flour mixture into the stew before serving.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Marjoram + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together957 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  4. Nutmeg + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, nutmeg, marjoram, lemon, thyme, egg, flour):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, nutmeg, marjoram, lemon, thyme, egg, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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