Name: Fotol, Leal, or Rabbit, Game or Fish Patties
Ingredients: leftover white rabbit meat; veal kidney fat or steeped bacon; oysters or mushrooms (optional); cream; seasoning

Why it works: Rabbit and meat work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 315 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Fotol, Leal, or Rabbit, Game or Fish Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Mince the leftover rabbit meat finely with an equal quantity of veal kidney fat or steeped bacon.
Add oysters or mushrooms if desired.
Season the mixture and dress it with cream.
Fill the hot patties with the prepared mixture.

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 + meattop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together315 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Rabbit + creamtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together409 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Rabbit + oystertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Oyster + creamtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,886 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Rabbit + vealtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together441 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).