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Hare Soup

A hearty soup made with beef, hare, onions, herbs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Hare Soup

Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Hare Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stock

  1. In a stewpan, combine beef and water.

  2. Add sweet herbs, chopped onions, white pepper, and salt.

  3. Stew over gentle heat for 2 hours.

  4. Strain the gravy from the meat.

Finish the soup

  1. Add hare pieces to the gravy and stew until tender.

  2. Strain the soup before serving.

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. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  2. Onion + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Beef + white peppertop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together616 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean beef
Gives the gravy its meaty body and savory flavor as it stews.
Hare
Provides the main meat and rich, gamey flavor of the soup.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma to the gravy as they soften during stewing.

The step that matters

Stew the hare until tender. Hare is a lean, firm meat that becomes tough if overcooked or cooked too fast. Gentle, steady simmering breaks down its connective tissue slowly, so the pieces turn tender without drying out.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion. 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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