Name: Rabbit Gateau
Ingredients: rabbit; bacon; onion sauce or liver sauce; mashed potatoes

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Rabbit Gateau

Ingredients

rabbit
bacon
onion sauce or liver sauce
mashed potatoes

Directions

Boil the rabbit and serve it with onion sauce in a tureen.
Alternatively, cut the bacon into rashers and toast it.
Some cooks prefer to cut the rabbit into joints before serving.
If you dislike onions, substitute liver sauce for onion sauce.

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.

Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,292 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rabbit + potatotop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together58 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).