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Another Scotch Hare Soup

A hearty soup made with hare meat, bones, rice, browned butter, celery, onions, pepper, salt, and hare blood.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Another Scotch Hare Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the hare meat into large pieces.

  2. Stew the bones in 3 quarts of water with celery, onions, black pepper, salt, and cold-meat bones.

  3. Prepare ½ pound of rice by browning it, then mix in 2 ounces of browned butter.

  4. Break the blood of the hare in water, strain it, and add it cold to the browned rice.

Make the soup

  1. Stir constantly until it boils, then add the strained stock and pieces of hare.

  2. Stew everything together until fully cooked.

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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Celery + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

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

  4. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hare blood
Thickens the soup and gives it a rich, dark colour and savoury body.
Rice
Browned rice adds a toasted aroma and helps thicken the broth.
Cold-meat bones
Release flavour and gelatin into the water, building the body of the stock.
Hare meat
Provides the main meat and savoury flavour of the soup.

The step that matters

Adding the blood to the rice. Blood thickens and can curdle if it gets too hot or boils too fast. Adding it cold and stirring constantly keeps it smooth and evenly blended into the soup.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, pepper, meat, rice, butter):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, pepper, meat, rice, butter. 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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