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Stewed Rabbit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stewed Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the rabbit into neat joints and wash them thoroughly.

  2. Soak the rabbit in cold water with salt for 30 minutes to draw out the blood.

  3. Remove the rabbit, dry it, and blanch by boiling in cold water until it reaches a boil, then drain.

  4. Rinse the rabbit in fresh cold water and set aside.

  5. Prepare the stew by following the method for stewed chicken as referenced in the cookbook.

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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Arrowroot + celerytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Arrowroot + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Rabbit + arrowroottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  5. Rabbit + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together240 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

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

Swap the arrowroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, egg, celery, pepper):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, egg, celery, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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