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Made Dishes of Rabbit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Made Dishes of Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Garnish the rabbit with the livers and mushrooms.

  2. In a saucepan, reduce ⅓ cup tarragon vinegar.

  3. Add 3 tablespoons of butter to the vinegar and heat until very hot.

  4. Stir in 1 tablespoon more of tarragon vinegar.

  5. Pour the sauce carefully between the fillets, but not over them.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Mushroom + tarragontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together420 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Liver + mushroomtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Tarragon + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

Swap the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, mushroom, vinegar, butter):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Tarragonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, mushroom, vinegar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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