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Roast Leveret

A roasted leveret served with gravy and garnished with lemon, parsley, and curried rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Roast Leveret

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Stuff the leveret as you would a roast hare.

  2. Place it in a pie dish with a little water.

  3. Shape the body to appear natural and resting.

  4. Coat with beaten egg and bread crumbs.

  5. Pour melted butter over it.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 45 minutes.

  2. Dish it up.

  3. Thicken the gravy if necessary.

  4. Season to taste.

  5. Garnish with sliced lemon, parsley, and a border of curried rice.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Parsley + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Leveret
Is the main meat, cooked whole so it stays moist and holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs so they stick to the surface of the meat.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust over the outside during roasting.
Melted butter
Adds fat that helps the crust brown and carries flavour into the surface.

The step that matters

Coat with beaten egg and bread crumbs. If the egg is not spread evenly, the crumbs will fall off or leave bare patches. An even, thin coat of egg gives the crumbs something to hold, so the crust browns evenly in the oven.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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