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Hashed Game or Rabbit

A savory hash of game or rabbit simmered with broth, onion, and flour, garnished with toasted bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and rabbit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,292 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Hashed Game or Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gravy

  1. Cut the game or rabbit into joints.

  2. In a stewpan, combine the trimmings, broth, and onion; boil for 30 minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

  4. In a basin, mix flour with hot broth gradually; boil and strain through a fine sieve.

Simmer the game

  1. Wash the stewpan, place the game or rabbit in it, and pour the gravy over it.

  2. Simmer gently for 15 minutes without boiling.

Serve

  1. Five minutes before serving, warm the stuffing slices in the stewpan.

  2. Arrange the stuffing around the edge of the dish and place the game or rabbit in the center.

  3. Skim the fat off the gravy, shake it in the stewpan, and pour it over the hash.

  4. Garnish with lightly toasted bread snippets.

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. Onion + rabbittop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Flour + rabbittop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  3. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Rabbit + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Broth
Forms the liquid base of the gravy and carries the flavor of the trimmings and onion.
Flour
Thickens the gravy as its starch swells in the hot liquid.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and depth to the broth.
Fowl or rabbit
The main meat, which becomes tender when simmered gently in the gravy.

The step that matters

Simmer gently without boiling. A rolling boil toughens muscle proteins and makes them contract and dry out, while gentle heat keeps the meat tender. Boiling also clouds the gravy and can break up the thickened sauce.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, rabbit, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, rabbit, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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