Name: A LA Jardiniere
Ingredients: thin slices of delicate white bacon; rabbit; puree of vegetables; variety of vegetables (such as carrots, turnips, and potatoes)

Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A LA Jardiniere

Ingredients

thin slices of delicate white bacon
rabbit
puree of vegetables
variety of vegetables (such as carrots, turnips, and potatoes)

Directions

Fry thin slices of delicate white bacon until crispy.
Place the fried bacon around the rabbit on a serving dish.
Heat the vegetable puree in a saucepan and pour it over the rabbit.
For a second serving method, stew whole vegetables with the meat and arrange them around the rabbit when serving.

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.

Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8,002 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,107 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Turnip + potatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together562 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Rabbit + turniptop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together117 recipes

Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).
Rabbit + potatotop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together58 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).