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Casserole of Rabbit

A casserole of rabbit with seasoned flour and onions, cooked for 1–2 hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,292 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Casserole of Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Blanch the rabbit joints before using.

  2. Dip the blanched joints in seasoned flour.

  3. Brown 2 thinly sliced onions in a frying pan.

  4. Add the browned onions to the casserole.

Cook

  1. Cook young rabbits for about 1 hour and older ones for about 2 hours.

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.

Explore the science

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. Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rabbit + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  3. Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit joints
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender during slow cooking.
Seasoned flour
Coats the joints so they brown and help thicken the cooking liquid.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften and brown in the pan.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, flour):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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