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Venison Cutlets or Steaks

Venison cutlets or steaks seasoned with salt and pepper, broiled and served with mushrooms, baked potatoes, or currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Venison Cutlets or Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the venison cutlets or steaks neatly, leaving the fat intact.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil on a hot grill over a clear, gentle fire, turning often for about 20 minutes.

  2. Serve with stewed mushrooms and baked potatoes, or hot currant jelly as a sauce if mushrooms are unavailable.

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. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  5. Venison + mushroomtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together131 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Venison cutlets or steaks
Lean meat that forms the main body of the dish and browns on the grill.
Black pepper
Adds sharp aroma and a mild bite to the meat's surface.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the meat and helps build a flavorful, browned crust.

The step that matters

Turning the cutlets over a gentle fire. Venison is very lean, so cooking it over a fire that is too hot or left still can scorch the outside before the centre is done. Turning often spreads the heat evenly, browns the surface gradually, and helps keep the meat from drying out.

Swap the currant

The recipe marks currant as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, pepper, mushroom, potato):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Red currantfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, pepper, mushroom, potato. 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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