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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 64 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Roast

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Select your choice of game from the list provided.

  2. Prepare the game by cleaning and dressing it appropriately.

  3. Season the game with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Roast the game in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until cooked through.

  5. Let the game rest before carving and 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. Rabbit + quailtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Buffalo + bisontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Elk + bisontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Bison + quailtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Elk + quailtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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