Name: Venison Chops
Ingredients: venison chops; red currant jelly; tomato sauce; bacon

Why it works: Red currant and tomato work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Venison Chops

Ingredients

venison chops
red currant jelly
tomato sauce
bacon

Directions

Grill or broil the venison chops like mutton chops.
Serve hot with melted red currant jelly or tomato sauce.
Add bacon as a favorite accompaniment on the same 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.

Red currant + tomatotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together59 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Venison + red curranttop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together81 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Venison + saucetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together208 recipes
Venison + tomatotop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together102 recipes

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