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Croustades with Pounded Rabbit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and sauce work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 330 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Croustades with Pounded Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Prepare croustades like miniature vols-au-vent.

  2. Mix pounded rabbit with sauce, tongue, kidney, and other ingredients.

  3. Moisten the mixture with creamy veloute.

  4. Top each croustade with a slice of truffle and cover with a cap.

  5. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until perfect.

  6. Serve quickly on a napkin, garnished with fried curly parsley.

  7. Accompany with dry toast.

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. Rabbit + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Rabbit + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  3. Rabbit + truffletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Truffle + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  5. Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,490 recipes

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

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

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

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