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Rabbit En Papillotes

Herb‑marinated rabbit wrapped in parchment paper with bacon and broiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Rabbit En Papillotes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the rabbits into joints and marinate them for several hours in parsley, mushrooms, chives, garlic, pepper, salt, and oil.

  2. Cover each piece of rabbit with the marinate and a slice of bacon.

Cook and serve

  1. Wrap each piece separately in well-buttered white paper.

  2. Broil over a gentle fire and serve in the paper as hot as possible.

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. Chive + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Young and tender rabbits
Provide the main meat, which cooks through gently inside the paper.
Thin slices of bacon
Add fat that bastes the rabbit and adds savory flavor as it cooks.
Butter
Greases the paper and adds richness and moisture to the meat.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the marinade.

The step that matters

Wrapping each piece separately in buttered paper. The paper must be sealed well so the rabbit steams in its own juices and marinade. A loose or torn wrap lets moisture escape and the meat dries out under the heat.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, parsley, mushroom, chive, garlic, pepper, butter):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, parsley, mushroom, chive, garlic, pepper, butter. 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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