Name: Rice Rovpf
Ingredients: 1 leg of pork; greens; calf's liver; bacon; rabbits; onions

Why it works: Pork and rabbit work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 832 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Rice Rovpf

Ingredients

Directions

Boil the leg of pork until cooked through.
Prepare the greens by boiling or steaming until tender.
Cook the calf's liver and bacon together in a pan until the liver is browned and cooked through.
For the fricassee, cut the rabbits into pieces and sauté with onions until the rabbits are cooked and the onions are soft.

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.

Pork + rabbittop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together832 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Pork + livertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,606 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,214 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,292 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Liver + rabbittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together233 recipes

Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).