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Stuffing for Hare

A savory stuffing made with beef suet, bread crumbs, herbs, and egg, used to fill a hare.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,979 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Stuffing for Hare

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, mix the beef suet, bread crumbs, parsley, eschalot, marjoram, lemon-thyme, lemon peel, pepper, and salt.

  2. Add the egg and mix until cohesive; the stuffing should not be too thin.

  3. If the stuffing is not stiff enough, it will not hold together.

Stuff the hare

  1. If the liver is sound, parboil it, mince it finely, and add it to the stuffing.

  2. Stuff the mixture into the hare and sew it up.

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. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Marjoram + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together957 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the stuffing moist and rich as it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Provides bulk and absorbs moisture so the stuffing holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the stuffing together so it holds its shape when stuffed and sewn.

The step that matters

Judge the stuffing's consistency before stuffing. Too thin a mixture will not bind, and the egg and crumbs need enough body to set into a firm mass. Checking stiffness before stuffing prevents the filling from falling apart.

“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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