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Rabbits En Gallentine

A stuffed rabbit dish with force‑meat, ham, fowl, omelets, bacon, and coulis.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and meat work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 315 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Rabbits En Gallentine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rabbits

  1. Bone and flatten the rabbits.

  2. Spread force-meat on the rabbits and layer with ham, fowl, and omelets.

  3. Roll tightly and sew them up neatly.

  4. Lard the top with slices of fat bacon.

Cook and serve

  1. Blanch and braise the rabbits.

  2. Glaze the larding and place good coulis underneath.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Rabbit + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Rabbit + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together273 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Young rabbits
Form the main body of the dish, cooked whole after being boned and rolled.
Force-meat
Adds a soft, moist stuffing layer that keeps the rolled meat tender.
Fat bacon
Lardoons baste the surface with fat, keeping the lean rabbit moist and helping it brown.
Lean ham
Adds savory, salty flavor to the layered filling.
Omelets made from eggs
Provide a set, sliceable layer that holds the filling together inside the roll.

The step that matters

Roll tightly and sew them up neatly. Loose rolling lets the filling shift and leaves gaps, so slices come apart and the meat cooks unevenly. A firm, even roll holds the layers together and gives a uniform cook.

“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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