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LA Soupe Aux Choux Et Au Lard

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 307 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

LA Soupe Aux Choux Et Au Lard

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the rabbit until tender.

  2. In a soup tureen, place thin slices of bread.

  3. Add a few bits of cabbage.

  4. Pour the cooking liquid over the bread and cabbage, avoiding excess fat.

  5. For a darker soup, dissolve a small piece of pastille de legumes in the liquid.

  6. Remove leftover bacon to serve cold for breakfast, if desired.

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.

Explore the science

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. Rabbit + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Bread + cabbagetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Rabbit + cabbagetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19 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

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

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

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