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Stewed Giblets

A stew of cleaned giblets simmered with water, peppercorns, onion, carrot, herbs, and optional liquid browning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Stewed Giblets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the giblets thoroughly and dry them well.

  2. Roll the giblets in flour.

Stew

  1. Place the gizzards and feet in a saucepan with ½ pint of water or stock and 6 peppercorns.

  2. Stew gently for 45 minutes.

  3. Add the remaining giblets, 1 pint of water, onion, carrot, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, and celery.

  4. Stew for an additional 1.5 hours.

  5. Remove the herbs.

Serve

  1. Place the giblets on a dish.

  2. If needed, add a little liquid browning.

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

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  5. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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, which becomes tender through long, gentle stewing.
Flour (in the method)
Coats the giblets so the stewing liquid thickens slightly around them.
Carrot
Adds natural sweetness and body to the stewing liquid.
Onion
Adds savoury depth and aroma to the stewing liquid.

The step that matters

Stew gently for 45 minutes. Keeping the liquid at a gentle simmer rather than a hard boil lets connective tissue break down slowly, so the giblets become tender without toughening or falling apart.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, carrot, parsley, thyme, celery. 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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