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Quenelles of Rabbit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Quenelles of Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the rabbit meat as you would for chicken.

  2. Mix the rabbit meat with tarragon and any desired sauces.

  3. Shape the mixture into quenelles.

  4. Poach the quenelles until cooked through.

  5. Serve with your choice of sauces.

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 + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together315 recipes

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

  2. Rabbit + tarragontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Tarragon + saucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together566 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes

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

Swap the tarragon

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Tarragonthe original

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

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