Name: Rabbit Pie
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 2 h
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 rabbit; a few slices ham or bacon; salt and white pepper; 2 blades pounded mace; ½ tsp grated nutmeg; a few forcemeat balls; 2 hard-boiled eggs; 300ml/½ pt gravy; crust puff pastry

Why it works: Mace and nutmeg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,557 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Rabbit Pie

Serves 4

Prep1 hr

Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

381Calories

37 gProtein

24 gFat

3 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Rabbit	not in our table	0
Mace	not in our table	0
Pastry	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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.

Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,557 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
White pepper + macetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,695 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
White pepper + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,375 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Rabbit + hamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together273 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rabbit + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together235 recipes

Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, ham, mace, nutmeg, egg):

Clovefits better
Cinnamonfits better
Allspicefits better
White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, ham, mace, nutmeg, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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