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Rich Hare Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Rich Hare Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the hare in 4 quarts of water with the ham-bone, onion, leek, garlic, carrot, turnip, mixed herbs, curry powder, cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon, and mace until the meat separates from the bones.

  2. Strain the soup and reserve the liquid.

  3. Pound the hare's flesh and any ham pieces into a paste.

  4. Stir the paste into the soup to thicken.

  5. Serve hot, adding lemon peel and nutmeg 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.

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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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Leek + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, onion, leek, clove, garlic, carrot, turnip):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, onion, leek, clove, garlic, carrot, turnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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