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Hare Cutlets

Hare cutlets are slices of hare coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried, served with vegetable purée, jelly, and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley 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 Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the hare

  1. Braise the back of a hare until nearly done, then let it cool.

  2. Cut the hare into nice slices.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each slice in beaten egg, then coat with a mixture of bread crumbs, salt, white pepper, lemon peel, mushroom powder, bay leaf, thyme, and parsley.

  2. Fry the slices in hot fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve in a ring with a purée of vegetables in the center, and offer jelly and gravy on the side.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

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 is braised first so it becomes tender before slicing.
Beaten egg
Binds the seasoned bread crumbs to the hare slices so the coating stays in place.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that protects the meat while it fries.

The step that matters

Frying the coated slices. The coating needs hot fat to brown quickly and crisp before the meat dries out. Fat that is too cool lets the crumbs soak up grease and turn soggy.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bread, lemon, mushroom, thyme, parsley, butter):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, lemon, mushroom, thyme, parsley, butter. 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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