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To Broil Venison Steaks

Broiled venison steaks seasoned with butter, pepper, coarse sea salt, and finished with Madeira, Sherry, or Port, garnished with currant jelly or lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sherry and currant work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

To Broil Venison Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the steaks

  1. Preheat the grill until hot.

  2. Broil the venison steaks until cooked to your liking.

  3. Place the steaks on a hot dish.

Season and serve

  1. Rub the steaks with butter, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Drizzle with Madeira, Sherry, or Port.

  3. Garnish the dish with currant jelly or lemon slices.

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.

Explore the science

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. Sherry + curranttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Venison + curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together443 recipes

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

  3. Butter + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Venison + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together957 recipes

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

  5. Butter + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Venison steaks
Provide the main lean meat that is cooked and served.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps keep the surface moist.
Madeira, sherry, or port
Adds sweetness and a rich, aromatic flavour to the steaks.

The step that matters

Broil until cooked to your liking. Venison is very lean, so it dries out and toughens quickly under high heat. Checking it early and removing it at the desired doneness keeps the inside juicy.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, butter, pepper, sherry):

  1. Red currantfits about as well
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, butter, pepper, sherry. 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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