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Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Potted Pigeons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff, salt, season with salt and pepper, roll in flour, brown in salt pork fat, put in stew-pan and cover with brown gravy, cook till tender. Brown two tablespoons of butter, add two tablespoons of flour, brown, pour on one pint hot water, cover the pigeons ; add half spoon Worcestershire sauce.

  2. Mrs. Ozro W. Childs. BROILED QUAILS.

  3. Singe and draw the quails, split them lengthwise down the back and wipe them with a damp cloth. Season with salt and- pepper, rub them well in warm butter and dredge with flour. Place the birds on a gridiron over a clear fire and broil for ten minutes.' Cut some thick slices of bread, remove the crusts, toast and butter them and lay them on a hot dish. Place a quail when cooked on each side, garnish with parsley and serve.

  4. Mrs. M. J. Connbll. SMOTHERED QUAILS.

  5. Split quail up back, rub all over with flour, salt and pep- per, enough water to keep from burning. Butter entire bird, let bake in covered pan half hour. Make gravy of what is in pan by adding a little flour. Serve each bird on toast with gravy poured over it.

  6. Mrs. Jbrry Conroy. JUGGED RABBIT.

  7. Clean a rabbit, disjoint it, cut the body in four pieces, cut one-half pound of salt pork in small pieces, put them in a stew-pan with one ounce of butter and toss it over the fire until the butter has melted ; then put in the pieces of rabbit and fry until lightly browned. Sprinkle on one tablespoon of flour, pour in half pint each of claret and of broth, add eight small onions, a bunch of sweet herbs, a clove of garlic, two or three cloves, and place the stew-pan over the fire until it boils ; then move to one side and allow to simmer gently until ten- der. When cooked, place the pieces of rabbit on a hot dish, arrange the onions around them, strain the cooking liquor through a hair sieve and serve.

  8. Mrs. J. G. Mossin.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

869Calories
43 gProtein
27 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

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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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, pork, garlic, sauce, onion, pepper):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, pork, garlic, sauce, onion, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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