Name: Rabbits En Galantine for a Dish
Ingredients: 2 boned rabbits; light forcemeat; slips of lean ham; breast of fowl; omelets made from egg whites and yolks; fat bacon; cullis (sauce)

Why it works: Rabbit and ham work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 273 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Rabbits En Galantine for a Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Lay the boned rabbits flat.
Spread a little light forcemeat on each rabbit.
Add slips of lean ham, breast of fowl, and omelets on top.
Roll the rabbits tightly and sew them closed.
Lard the tops with slips of fat bacon.
Blanch and braise the rabbits.
Before serving, glaze the larding and place good cullis underneath.

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.

Rabbit + hamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together273 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rabbit + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together330 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,526 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ham + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,314 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Rabbit + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).