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Venison Soup, Brown

A hearty venison soup thickened with brown roux, flavored with onion, carrot, peppercorns, and optional red wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and carrot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,601 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Venison Soup, Brown

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the venison

  1. In a pot, melt the butter and stew the venison pieces for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.

  2. In a separate pot, mix the cold water with the venison blood (if using) and bring to a boil.

Simmer the soup

  1. Add the stewed venison to the boiling liquid along with the peppercorns, minced onion, and grated carrot.

  2. Simmer the soup gently for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  3. Strain the soup and thicken it with brown thickening.

Finish and serve

  1. Return the meat to the soup, add the red wine, and heat thoroughly before serving.

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. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  2. Venison + red winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + red winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Venison breast
Provides the main meat flavor and, once stewed and simmered, becomes tender in the broth.
Venison blood
Thickens the liquid and adds a rich, deep flavor and color to the soup.
Butter
Carries heat for the initial stewing and adds richness that helps brown the meat.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aromatic depth as it softens in the broth.
Red wine
Adds acidity and fruity depth that balances the rich meat flavor.

The step that matters

Stewing the venison in butter. Stirring occasionally prevents the meat and butter from scorching. Browning the meat gently builds the deep flavor that carries through the whole soup.

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, butter, onion, red wine):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, butter, onion, red wine. 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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