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Directions for Making Curry

A curry made with rabbit or fowl, onions, garlic, coriander, butter, curry powder, water, and mashed potatoes, served over rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Directions for Making Curry

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curry

  1. In a pan, fry the onions, garlic, and coriander seeds in butter until brown.

  2. Add the rabbit or fowl, curry powder, water, and salt; stew gently until the meat is tender.

  3. Remove the meat and add the mashed potatoes to the gravy, then pour it over the meat.

Cook the rice and serve

  1. In a separate pot, boil the curry rice with 1 teaspoon of salt until soft, ensuring to strain it very dry.

  2. Serve the meat bordered with the rice.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit or fowl
Provides the meat, which becomes tender through gentle stewing in the gravy.
Butter
Fat that fries the onions and garlic to browning, building flavour in the base.
Curry powder
Supplies the spice blend that gives the gravy its characteristic curry flavour.
Mashed potatoes
Starch that thickens the gravy and gives it body.
Curry rice
Forms the starchy base that the meat and gravy are served alongside.

The step that matters

Strain the rice very dry. Excess water left in cooked rice dilutes the dish and makes it soggy, so draining thoroughly keeps the grains separate and the border firm.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, onion, garlic, coriander, butter, potato, rice):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, onion, garlic, coriander, butter, potato, rice. 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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