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Mock Hare

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,533 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Mock Hare

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a good hare stuffing.

  2. Lay the stuffing on half the length of the inside meat of the sirloin.

  3. Fold the other half over and sew the sides with strong twine.

  4. Roast the meat, basting it well.

  5. Serve with sauces and garnishes like hare, or partially roast and then stew in rich thickened gravy with force-meat balls.

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. Beef + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Sauce + meattop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes
  3. Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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