Why it works: Rabbit and egg work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Rabbit in Aspic Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Divide the cooked rabbit into neat pieces.
Cover the bottom of a plain mold with a thin layer of cold aspic jelly and let it set.
Decorate the set jelly with slices of hard-boiled egg and add more jelly.
Arrange the pieces of rabbit in layers, interspersed with strips of bacon and slices of egg, then fill up with jelly.
Set aside until fully set, then unmold, garnish with chopped aspic, and serve.
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 + eggtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together558 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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