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Fillets of Leverets Larded As Roebuck

Fillets of leverets larded with bacon, marinated, sautéed, baked, and glazed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,563 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Fillets of Leverets Larded As Roebuck

Ingredients

Directions

Marinate

  1. Lard the fillets of the leverets with bacon.

  2. Marinate the fillets in a mixture of salt, pepper, sliced onion, bay leaf, thyme, vinegar, and water for at least 36 hours.

Braise and serve

  1. Drain the fillets and place them in a sauté pan with fat bacon underneath and on top.

  2. Add slices of carrot, shallots, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, whole peppercorns, and mace.

  3. Cover the fillets with a sheet of paper and bake them.

  4. Once done, glaze the larded parts with a fine glaze and serve them en miroton.

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. Thyme + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Leverets
Provide the lean meat that is larded, marinated, and baked as the main dish.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor to the lean meat as it cooks.
Vinegar
Acidity in the marinade tenderises the meat and adds a tangy flavor.
Onion
Flavors the marinade with aroma and mild sweetness.

The step that matters

Covering the fillets with paper while baking. Lean game meat dries out easily in dry oven heat. The paper traps moisture and steam around the fillets, helping keep them tender and juicy.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, thyme, vinegar, carrot):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, thyme, vinegar, carrot. 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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