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Hare, Rabbit, or Partridge Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,873 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Hare, Rabbit, or Partridge Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut off the legs and shoulders of the hare and divide the body crossways.

  2. Stew the hare gently in 3 quarts of water with the carrot, onions, mace, cloves, peppercorns, and sweet herbs until tender, about 3 hours.

  3. Make 12-18 force meat balls the size of nutmegs.

  4. Remove the meat from the back and upper joints of the legs, cut into mouthfuls, and set aside.

  5. Mince the remaining meat and pound it with butter and flour moistened with a little soup.

  6. Rub this mixture through a fine sieve and add it to the soup to thicken.

  7. Simmer for an additional 30 minutes, skimming as needed.

  8. Pass the soup through a tamis, return it to the pan, and add the reserved meat, wine, and currant jelly.

  9. Season with salt and pepper, add the force meat balls, and heat until 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. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  3. Mace + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, clove, ham, butter, flour, wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, onion, clove, ham, butter, flour, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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