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Hare Soup

A stew made from hare, ham, celery, onions, herbs, wine, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Hare Soup

Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hare Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. In a jug, combine the hare, ham, celery, onions, sweet herbs, red wine, and water.

  2. Cover and stew for 2 to 3 hours until the meat is tender.

Finish and season

  1. Strain the soup and remove the meat from the bones.

  2. Pound the meat in a mortar and add it back to the soup until it reaches the desired thickness.

  3. Bring the soup to a boil and stir in the soy sauce, ketchup, cayenne pepper, salt, and sugar.

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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Explore the science

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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Ketchup + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Hare
Provides the main meat and rich flavour that defines the soup.
Ham
Adds savoury, salty depth to the stock as it stews.
Onions
Contribute sweetness and aromatic depth to the broth as they cook.
Red wine
Adds acidity and aromatic complexity to the stewed broth.

The step that matters

Stewing until the meat is tender. Hare is a lean, tough meat, so it needs long, gentle, covered stewing to break down connective tissue. Stopping early leaves the meat chewy and the broth thin in flavour.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, celery, red wine, sauce, ketchup, pepper, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, celery, red wine, sauce, ketchup, pepper, sugar. 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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