Why it works: Sauce and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,396 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Snipe, Curried
Ingredients
Directions
Stew the less desirable parts of the snipe to make stock.
Combine the stock with good brown sauce or game gravy to create the curry sauce.
Cook the snipe in the sauce, ensuring it is covered and not on the fire longer than necessary.
Serve the curried snipe with plenty of rice.
If available, add fumet of game to enhance the flavor.
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.
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Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,396 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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