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Scollops of Rabbits with Mushrooms

A dish of rabbit pieces sautéed with mushrooms, butter, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Scollops of Rabbits with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Remove the meat from the rabbits and cut into small pieces.

  2. Sauté the rabbit pieces in butter until browned.

  3. Add sliced mushrooms and cook until tender.

Season and serve

  1. Season with salt, pepper, and chopped parsley 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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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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  5. Rabbit + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together406 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Provides the main protein, which browns in butter to build flavor and firm texture.
Mushrooms
Soften as they cook, adding moisture and earthy flavor to the dish.
Butter
Conducts heat for browning the rabbit and adds richness and fat to the dish.

The step that matters

Browning the rabbit in butter. Browning relies on the Maillard reaction, which needs a dry surface and enough heat. If the pieces are crowded or wet, they steam instead of browning, losing the deep savory flavor the dish depends on.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, mushroom, butter, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, mushroom, butter, pepper. 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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