Name: Game Consomme a LA Desculignac
Ingredients: 1 partridge or prairie hen; 1 rabbit; ½ lb. ham; 1 knuckle of veal; soup vegetables; 7 eggs

Why it works: Rabbit and ham work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 273 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Game Consomme a LA Desculignac

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make a consomme by substituting the veal, ham, partridge, and rabbit for the soup meat, and clear it perfectly.
Prepare a 'poyafe' paste as directed in the recipe for Consommé à la Boyale.
Add the paste to the consomme and 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.

Rabbit + hamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together273 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Ham + vealtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,264 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,526 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Rabbit + vealtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together441 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).
Rabbit + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).