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Stuffing for Rabbit

A savory stuffing made with onion, bread crumbs, pickled pork, herbs, pepper, salt, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,214 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffing for Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onion

  1. Blanch the onion in boiling water for 5 minutes, then strain and rinse in cold water.

  2. Cook the onion in boiling water until tender, then mince finely.

Make the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, combine the minced onion, minced pickled pork, bread crumbs, mixed herbs, pepper, and a little salt. Mix well and bind the mixture with the beaten egg.

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 + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bread + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Binds the stuffing together so it holds its shape when cooked.
Fine white bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the stuffing a soft, light body.
Cooked pickled pork
Adds salty, savoury flavour and richness to the stuffing.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and moisture to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Blanching and cooking the onion until tender. Onion that is not fully softened stays sharp and crunchy inside the stuffing. Cooking it through mellows its sharp sulphur compounds and gives an even, tender texture once bound with egg.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pork, egg, 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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