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20lLED and Roasted Meats, Poultry, &C.

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Why it works: Parsley and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,062 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

20lLED and Roasted Meats, Poultry, &C.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the livers with a bunch of parsley, then chop them finely.

  2. Melt butter in a pan, add half the liver and parsley, and pour into a dish.

  3. Garnish the dish with the remaining liver and parsley.

  4. For the rabbits, boil them for at least 45 minutes, skewer them with the head upright and legs straight.

  5. Serve the rabbits with onion sauce or with parsley and butter.

  6. For the sauce, bruise the boiled livers, remove strings, and mix with veal stock, finely chopped parsley, and barberries.

  7. Season the sauce with mace and nutmeg, thicken with butter and flour, and add white wine.

  8. Pour the sauce over the rabbits and garnish with lemons and barberries.

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 + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  3. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, parsley, butter, veal, nutmeg, flour, white wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, parsley, butter, veal, nutmeg, flour, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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