Name: Timbales De Nouilles Au Chasseur
Ingredients: 2 young rabbits, filleted; truffles (¼ the amount of rabbit meat); Espagnole sauce; rabbit stock

Why it works: Rabbit and meat work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 315 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Timbales De Nouilles Au Chasseur

Ingredients

2 young rabbits, filleted
truffles (¼ the amount of rabbit meat)
Espagnole sauce
rabbit stock

Directions

Prepare the timbales as previously described.
Sauté the filleted rabbit, cutting it into 1 cm wide pieces.
Cut the truffles in the same manner.
Combine the rabbit meat and truffles with reduced Espagnole sauce and rabbit stock.
Fill the timbales with the mixture, place the lids on top, and serve.

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.

Rabbit + meattop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together315 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Truffle + meattop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together527 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Rabbit + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together330 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Rabbit + truffletop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together108 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,167 recipes