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Pate De Lievre a LA Cumberland

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Pate De Lievre a LA Cumberland

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Skin the hare and wash it several times in fresh water.

  2. Cut the hare into joints and bone each piece.

  3. Put the carcass in a stewpan with water to make stock.

  4. Flavor the stock with cloves, a bay leaf, and salt; skim as it boils and cook gently for one hour.

  5. Wipe the meat, cut it into slices, and fry in 1 oz. of butter.

  6. Add the shallot, peeled and chopped, and cook until softened.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Clove + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Shallot + marjoramtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together287 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, shallot, clove, butter, thyme, marjoram, port wine):

  1. Winter savoryfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, shallot, clove, butter, thyme, marjoram, port wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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