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Rabbits, Broiled

Broiled rabbit seasoned with pepper, salt, and bread crumbs, served with mushroom sauce, catsup and butter, or parsley and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rabbits, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the rabbit with pepper, coarse sea salt, and bread crumbs.

  2. Place the rabbit on a gridiron set high above the fire.

  3. Alternatively, lay the rabbit in buttered paper on the gridiron.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook until done through, avoiding burning.

  2. Once cooked, pour mushroom sauce, catsup and butter, or parsley and butter over the rabbit.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Rabbit + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together406 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Is the main protein that cooks through over the fire and becomes the dish.
Bread crumbs
Coat the rabbit, adding a light crust that can brown during cooking.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and carries flavor when used in buttered paper or as a sauce.

The step that matters

Cook until done through, avoiding burning. The gridiron is set high above the fire, so heat is intense and the coating can scorch before the thick meat cooks through. Keeping the rabbit at a distance and checking it for doneness helps the inside cook without the outside burning.

“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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