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Hare Soup, H LA Chasseur

A hearty soup made with hare, vegetables, red wine, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Hare Soup, H LA Chasseur

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

  1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.

  2. Sauté chopped onion, carrots, leek, and garlic until softened.

  3. Add hare pieces and brown on all sides.

  4. Pour in water and red wine, then add salt, pepper, and herbs.

  5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 1.5 hours.

  6. Remove hare, shred meat, and return to soup. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,326 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Leek + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Hare
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and shreds after long simmering.
Red wine
Adds acidity and depth of flavour to the broth.
Onion
Builds a sweet, savoury base when softened in oil.
Carrots
Add gentle sweetness and body to the broth.
Leek
Adds mild onion-like flavour and aroma to the base.

The step that matters

Simmer gently after the boil. Once the soup boils, reducing the heat to a gentle simmer lets the tough meat become tender without toughening or drying out. A hard boil makes the meat firm and the broth cloudy.

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, clove, garlic, red wine, olive, pepper):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, clove, garlic, red wine, olive, pepper. 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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