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Curried Rabbit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,433 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Curried Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Open the tin of rabbit carefully.

  2. Remove the fat from the top of the meat.

  3. Melt the butter or clarified dripping in a stewpan over medium heat.

  4. Peel and slice the onions.

  5. Fry the onions in the hot fat until browned, stirring occasionally.

  6. Transfer the browned onions to a plate.

  7. Dry the rabbit pieces with a cloth and sprinkle with flour.

  8. Fry the floured rabbit pieces in the stewpan until browned.

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 + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  2. Rabbit + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  5. Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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