Name: Game Patties
Ingredients: good light puff paste; 1 egg (for egg wash); minced venison, hare, or any kind of game

Why it works: Egg and venison work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Game Patties

Ingredients

good light puff paste
1 egg (for egg wash)
minced venison, hare, or any kind of game

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Prepare small patties using good light puff pastry.
Fill the center of each patty with minced game.
Brush the tops with beaten egg.

Bake and serve

Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.
Serve hot on a platter.

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.

Egg + venisontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together159 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry: Its layers puff and separate in the oven, forming a light, flaky casing.
Egg: Brushed on as an egg wash, it promotes browning and a glossy golden surface.
Minced game: Forms the savoury filling that fills the center of each patty.

“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.