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Fried Rabbit

Fried rabbit with breaded joints served in a creamy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fried Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the rabbit in water for 10 minutes, then drain and let it cool.

  2. Cut the rabbit into joints.

  3. Dip each joint into the beaten eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

  4. Season with salt and pepper.

Fry and make the sauce

  1. Fry the joints in a mixture of butter and sweet lard over medium heat until browned on both sides.

  2. Remove the rabbit and thicken the remaining fat with flour.

  3. Stir in the milk or cream and bring to a boil.

Serve

  1. Pour the sauce over the rabbit and serve hot with onion sauce.

  2. Garnish with sliced lemon.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Is the main protein, cooked first by boiling and then browned for flavor and texture.
Eggs
Bind the bread crumbs to the rabbit so the coating sticks during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
Flour
Thickens the leftover frying fat into a smooth sauce.
Milk or cream
Adds body and richness to the sauce, mellowing its flavor.
Butter and sweet lard
Provide the frying fat, adding browning and rich flavor to the coating.

The step that matters

Fry the joints until browned on both sides. Medium heat lets the breaded coating brown and crisp without burning before the inside is cooked through. Too little fat or too high heat can scorch the crumbs or leave them pale and soggy.

“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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