Name: To Fricassee Rabbits
Ingredients: 1 rabbit; milk; water; lemon

Why it works: Rabbit and lemon work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 626 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Fricassee Rabbits

Ingredients

1 rabbit
milk
water
lemon

Directions

Wash and blanch the rabbit in clean water.
Cut the rabbit into joints.
Place the rabbit in a pot with milk and water.
Let it stew until tender.
Prepare a white fricassee in another pan as directed in the first recipe.
Dish up the rabbit neatly and garnish with lemon.

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.

Rabbit + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together626 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rabbit + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together284 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).