Name: Hare Soup
Ingredients: meat from hare bones; 2 French rolls; herb powder (1 oz. dried lemon thyme, 1 oz. dried winter savory, 1 oz. dried sweet marjoram, 2 oz. dried parsley); coarse sea salt to taste

Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Hare Soup

Ingredients

meat from hare bones
2 French rolls
herb powder (1 oz. dried lemon thyme, 1 oz. dried winter savory, 1 oz. dried sweet marjoram, 2 oz. dried parsley)
coarse sea salt to taste

Directions

Remove the meat from the hare bones and pound it in a mortar.
Add the pounded meat and the crumbs of the French rolls to the soup.
Rub the mixture through a sieve.
Heat the soup slowly, but do not let it boil.
Serve immediately.

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.

Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,225 recipes

Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).
Thyme + winter savorytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together780 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Winter savory + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together455 recipes

Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).
Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Marjoram + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,979 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).