Name: Hashed Poultry, Game, or Rabbit
Ingredients: Poultry, game, or rabbit, cut into joints; 1 quart broth (from boiling the meat); 1 large onion, quartered; 2 tablespoons flour; Coarse sea salt (to taste); Bread sippets, lightly toasted (for garnish)

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 ↓

Hashed Poultry, Game, or Rabbit

Ingredients

Poultry, game, or rabbit, cut into joints
1 quart broth (from boiling the meat)
1 large onion, quartered
2 tablespoons flour
Coarse sea salt (to taste)
Bread sippets, lightly toasted (for garnish)

Directions

Make the gravy

Combine the meat trimmings, broth, and onion in a stew pan.
Boil for 30 minutes.
Strain the mixture through a sieve.
In a basin, mix the flour with the hot broth gradually until smooth.
Boil this mixture.
Strain it through a fine sieve.

Cook the hash

Clean the stew pan.
Place the poultry in it.
Pour the strained gravy over the meat.
Simmer gently for 15 minutes without boiling.
Five minutes before serving, warm the stuffing slices in the gravy.
Remove the stuffing slices.
Arrange them around the edge of the dish.
Place the poultry in the center.
Skim off any fat from the gravy.
Shake the gravy well.
Pour it over the hash.
Garnish with lightly toasted bread sippets.

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 + oniontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,292 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rabbit + flourtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,067 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

Poultry, game, or rabbit: Provides the main meat, which becomes tender as it simmers gently in the gravy.
Flour: Thickens the broth into a smooth gravy as it is mixed in and heated.
Onion: Adds savory aroma and sweetness to the broth as it boils.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for 15 minutes without boiling. A hard boil makes the meat tough and dry and can break the flour-thickened gravy, so keep it at a gentle simmer.

Swap the onion

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

Shallotfits better
Mustardfits better
Asparagusfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, meat, flour, bread. 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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Hashed Poultry, Game, or Rabbit