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Broiled Venison Steak

Broiled venison steak seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with melted currant jelly and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Venison and currant 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

Broil

  1. Broil venison steaks over a clear fire, turning often.

  2. Cook until done, which takes longer than beef.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Glaze and serve

  1. Melt currant jelly with a piece of butter and pour over the steaks.

  2. Serve hot on hot plates.

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. Venison + curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together443 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  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

What each ingredient does

Venison steaks
The main protein, cooked by direct heat to a browned, savoury surface.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a tart fruit note that balances the rich, gamey meat.
Butter
Melts into the jelly to add fat and a smooth, glossy finish.

The step that matters

Cooking until done. Venison is very lean, so it dries out and toughens quickly past the right doneness. The record notes it takes longer than beef, so timing and turning often on a clear, hot fire help it cook through while keeping the surface browned.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Red currantfits better
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, pepper, butter. 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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