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A stew of hare fillets, onions, cloves, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, shallots, small mushrooms, and hare blood.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Garnish the fillets with onions, cloves, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, and shallots.

  2. Stew the mixture until tender, about 2 hours.

  3. Remove the garnish.

  4. Add the small mushrooms and incorporate the blood from the hare into the sauce.

  5. If using hashed cooked hare, do not stew as long.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 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

Hare fillets
Form the main body of the stew and become tender during the long, slow cooking.
Hare blood
Thickens the sauce and gives it a rich, dark color and body.
Small mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and soft texture to the finished stew.

The step that matters

Incorporate the blood into the sauce. Blood thickens sauces when added off the boil; if it boils after being added, it can curdle and turn grainy. Keep the sauce hot but below a simmer while stirring it in.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, parsley, thyme, shallot, mushroom):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, parsley, thyme, shallot, mushroom. 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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