Why it works: Rabbit and sugar work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 113 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Rabbit
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the gills from the rabbit.
Add claret and sugar to the rabbit.
Put the pieces of rabbit on a dish.
Pour the sauce over the rabbit and serve.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Rabbit + sugartop 29% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together113 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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