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Roast Rabbit

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Roast Rabbit

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Skin and clean the rabbit, saving the liver and kidneys.

  2. Cut off the feet at the first joint and cut across the sinews under the knee joints.

  3. In a small saucepan, cover the liver and kidneys with cold water, bring to a boil, strain, and chop finely.

  4. In a bowl, combine the bread crumbs, suet, and finely chopped bacon.

  5. Add the chopped liver and kidneys, parsley, thyme, salt, pepper, and grated lemon peel.

  6. Bind the mixture with the egg, adding a little milk if necessary.

  7. Stuff the rabbit with the forcemeat.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, bread, parsley, lemon, pepper, egg):

  1. Marjoramfits about as well
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Sagefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, bread, parsley, lemon, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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