Name: Broiled Venison Steak
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons currant jelly; 1 tablespoon butter; Coarse sea salt, to taste; Pepper, to taste; Venison steak

Why it works: Currant and venison work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 443 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Broiled Venison Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Melt the currant jelly with the butter in a small saucepan.
Season the venison steak with salt and pepper.
Broil the steak as you would a beefsteak, until rare.
Prepare a gravy by heating butter, pepper, salt, and a little water without boiling.
Score the steak all over, place it in the gravy, and cover tightly.
Keep the steak warm enough to steam, then serve in a covered dish.

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.

Currant + venisontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together443 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together957 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,856 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Pepper + venisontop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together955 recipes

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