Name: Butcher's Meat
Ingredients: Calf's Head; Teal; Mutton; Neat's Tongue; Sweetbreads; Chickens; Rabbits; Venison

Why it works: Chicken and rabbit work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Butcher's Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the Calf's Head by cleaning and removing any unwanted parts.
Minced Teal and Mutton can be seasoned and cooked as desired.
For Neat's Tongue, boil until tender, then slice and serve.
Sweetbreads should be soaked, blanched, and then sautéed until golden.
Chickens can be roasted or stewed with herbs and vegetables.
Rabbits can be prepared similarly to chickens, either roasted or in a stew.
Venison should be marinated and cooked to your preferred doneness.

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.

Chicken + rabbittop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together339 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Mutton + venisontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together279 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Mutton + chickentop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together471 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mutton + rabbittop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together151 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).
Rabbit + venisontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).