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Haee or Rabbit, Roasted

A roasted rabbit stuffed with breadcrumbs, suet or butter, onion, liver, lemon peel, egg, and claret, served with a cream gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Haee or Rabbit, Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Clean the rabbit and wash it thoroughly.

  2. Stuff the rabbit with bread crumbs, suet or butter, onion, liver, and lemon peel.

  3. Moisten the stuffing with egg and claret, then sew the rabbit up.

Roast and make gravy

  1. Baste with butter and roast for 2 hours.

  2. Make gravy with the drippings, cream or milk, and flour.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Rabbit + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the stuffing so it holds together during roasting.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the rabbit brown while roasting.
Flour
Thickens the gravy made from the drippings.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and body to the gravy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, bread, butter, onion, liver, egg, cream):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Applefits about as well
  4. Grapefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, bread, butter, onion, liver, egg, cream. 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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