Name: Game Consomme a LA Desclignac
Ingredients: 1 partridge or prairie hen; 1 rabbit; 3 ounces ham; 10 ounces 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 Desclignac

Ingredients

Directions

Make a consomme by following the instructions on pages 105 and 106, using veal, ham, partridge, and rabbit as the meat, and ensure it is perfectly cleared.
Prepare a Royale Paste as directed on page 144, then add it to the consomme as instructed in the recipe for Consomme a la Royale.
Serve immediately after adding the paste.

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).