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Hash, Stew, or Jug

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Hash, Stew, or Jug

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak hare joints in sherry vinegar with bay leaves and cloves for several hours.

  2. Prepare good gravy using meat trimmings, onions, ham or bacon, carrots, sweet herbs, and peppercorns.

  3. Lay hare joints in a stew-pan, season with salt, cayenne, and nutmeg.

  4. Strain the prepared gravy and the soaking vinegar over the hare.

  5. Stew gently for 3 to 5 hours until the hare is tender.

  6. Thicken the gravy with butter rolled in flour and chopped liver.

  7. Add port wine, catsup, anchovy, or other flavorings as desired.

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. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Nutmeg + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

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

  5. Sherry + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, nutmeg, sherry, vinegar, clove, ham, carrot):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, nutmeg, sherry, vinegar, clove, ham, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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