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Braised Rabbit with Bacon-Sage Dumplings

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Why it works: Rabbit and sage work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rabbit + sagetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Pepper + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,388 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, pepper, flour, onion, celery, carrot, white wine):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Marjoramabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, pepper, flour, onion, celery, carrot, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).