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Hare En Daube

A slow‑cooked hare stew with bacon, parsley, spices, wine, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Hare En Daube

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the hare

  1. Divide the hare in half.

  2. Layer the bottom of a stew pan with bacon slices.

  3. Place hare slices on top of the bacon.

Season and stew

  1. Tie a bundle of parsley with thyme, bay leaves, clove, and spices.

  2. Add carrots, onions, calf's feet, and chopped bacon to the pan.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and parsley roots.

  4. Moisten with broth and white wine.

  5. Cover with buttered paper to keep it moist.

  6. Seal the pan and stew gently for 3 hours.

Finish and strain

  1. Remove from heat, drain the hare, and skim the liquid.

  2. Strain the liquid through a silk sieve and let it cool.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Thyme + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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, which becomes tender through long, gentle stewing.
Bacon
Adds fat and savoury flavour that seasons the meat and the stewing liquid.
Calf's feet
Release gelatin into the liquid, giving the finished sauce body and a silky texture.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma while helping to moisten and flavour the stew.
Onions
Soften and sweeten during stewing, adding depth to the braising liquid.
Carrots
Contribute natural sweetness and body to the braising liquid.

The step that matters

Seal the pan and stew gently for 3 hours. A tight seal keeps moisture in, and gentle heat lets collagen in the meat and feet break down slowly. Boiling would toughen the meat and cloud the liquid.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, pepper, thyme, clove, carrot, white wine):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, pepper, thyme, clove, carrot, white wine. 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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