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Timbale of Hare, Iced

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,734 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Timbale of Hare, Iced

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Line a timbale mold with aspic flavored with 1 tablespoon of dissolved currant or tomato jelly.

  2. Fill the mold with the purée of hare and set on ice for a few hours.

  3. Turn out the timbale and coat with blocks of yellow aspic and little heaps of currant jelly that have been chilled.

  4. In between, add dressed salad and sliced stuffed eggs coated with a purée of sieved foie gras mixed with equal parts brown sauce and liquid aspic, whisked over ice.

  5. After filling the mold with hare purée, pour a layer of aspic, ½ inch thick, over it to cover completely.

  6. Garnish the top with contrasting ingredients used for the base.

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. Currant + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,734 recipes

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

  2. Currant + saucetop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together628 recipes
  3. Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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