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Vinegar Sauce for Venison

A vinegar-based sauce for venison made with vinegar and pounded loaf sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,806 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Vinegar Sauce for Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the vinegar into a clean saucepan.

  2. Add the pounded sugar and simmer gently until the sugar is dissolved.

  3. Remove any scum that rises to the surface.

  4. Strain the sauce through a cloth and serve in a tureen.

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. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Provides sharp acidity that balances the sugar and cuts the richness of venison.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and rounds out the sharpness of the vinegar as it dissolves.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the sugar is dissolved. Sugar dissolves fully only with gentle heat; a hard boil can reduce the vinegar too quickly and make the syrup overly concentrated or sharp. Skimming scum keeps the sauce clear.

“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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