Why it works: Rabbit and beef work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 252 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Rabbit Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Skin and wash the rabbit, then cut it up as for a stew.
Soak the pieces in cold water, then drain and dry them with a clean cloth.
In a large saucepan, combine the rabbit scraps, beef, and broth flavoring ingredients to make broth.
Skim the fat off the broth once it's ready.
Prepare a plain stuffing using half the quantity of ingredients as for turkey, mixing in the liver.
Assemble the pie with the rabbit, stuffing, and broth, then cover with pastry and bake.
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.
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Rabbit + beeftop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together252 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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