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Rabbit Pie

A pie made with rabbit, water or veal gravy, flour, heavy cream, and Jerusalem artichokes, baked with a thick crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and jerusalem artichoke match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 116 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Rabbit Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the rabbit

  1. Prepare the rabbit as for stewing and cut it into pieces.

  2. Place the rabbit in a pan with water or veal gravy and cook until half done.

Assemble the pie

  1. Transfer the meat to a pie dish and sprinkle with flour.

  2. Add the heavy cream and the gravy from stewing the rabbit.

  3. Arrange the sliced Jerusalem artichokes in the pie.

  4. Cover with a thick pie crust and bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

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. Flour + jerusalem artichoketop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Cream + jerusalem artichoketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

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

  4. Rabbit + jerusalem artichoketop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  5. Rabbit + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and flavorful as it cooks slowly in liquid.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a gravy that holds the filling together.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the filling a smooth, silky texture.
Jerusalem artichokes
Add earthy sweetness and a firm texture that holds up during baking.

The step that matters

Cook the rabbit only until half done. The meat finishes cooking in the oven under the crust. Overcooking it before assembly leaves it dry and stringy once baked.

“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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