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Broiled Rabbit or Squirrel

Broiled rabbit or squirrel seasoned with salt, pepper, and melted butter, served with lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Broiled Rabbit or Squirrel

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the rabbit or squirrel thoroughly and soak in salted water for at least 1 hour.

  2. Remove from water and wipe dry.

  3. Preheat your grill to high heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the rabbit or squirrel, turning often, until fully cooked.

  2. Place on a platter, drizzle with melted butter, and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Garnish with slices of lemon 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.

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

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

  2. Rabbit + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together626 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Rabbit + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Rabbit + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,334 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit or squirrel
Is the main protein; broiling with turning cooks it through while keeping the surface browned.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor and keeping the meat moist after cooking.

The step that matters

Broil the rabbit, turning often, until fully cooked. Lean game meat dries out quickly under high direct heat. Turning often spreads the heat evenly, so the outside browns while the inside cooks through without burning.

“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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