Why it works: Biscuit and rabbit work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Rabbit Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Line a deep dish with puff pastry or rich biscuit crust.
Stew the rabbit and season it well.
Pour the stewed rabbit into the dish.
Cover with an upper crust and bake.
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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Biscuit + rabbittop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together21 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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