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Venison Steaks, Fried

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and red currant work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 267 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Venison Steaks, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut venison steaks from a leg or loin, about ½ inch thick.

  2. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt, then dip in flour.

  3. Heat hot fat in a frying pan and add the steaks.

  4. Cover with a plate or lid until browned on one side.

  5. Remove the cover, turn the steaks, and brown the other side quickly.

  6. Ensure they are not overcooked.

  7. Pour in boiling stock or water, add red currant jelly and port or claret if desired.

  8. Stir the sauce over heat for a few minutes and serve hot.

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 + red curranttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Venison + red curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together81 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + red curranttop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Venison + peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together955 recipes

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

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

Swap the red currant

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Red currantthe original
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, pepper, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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