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Rabbit Stew

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and white wine work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Rabbit Stew

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and cut the rabbit meat into small pieces.

  2. Place the meat in a dish and pour over boiled cider or lemon juice and water with cut onions, spices, and bay leaves.

  3. Let the meat marinate in this mixture for 1 to 2 days.

  4. Remove the meat and place it in a pan on the stove with a little cider, adding water, fresh-cut onions, salt, and flour.

  5. Boil until the meat is cooked through.

  6. Thicken the gravy with browned flour, then add white wine and a small amount of sugar to taste.

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. Cider + white winetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Rabbit + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together315 recipes

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

  3. Onion + white winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,535 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rabbit + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, meat, cider, flour, white wine, sugar):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, meat, cider, flour, white wine, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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