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Venison steak cooked rare with a butter, pepper, salt, and water gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Venison and butter work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 957 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

To Cook Venison

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the steak

  1. Broil the venison steak as you would a beefsteak, until rare.

Make the gravy

  1. Prepare a gravy with butter, black pepper, coarse sea salt, and a little water.

  2. Heat the gravy gently without boiling it.

Combine and serve

  1. Score the steak all over and place it in the gravy.

  2. Cover tightly and keep hot enough to steam the meat.

  3. Serve in a covered dish.

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

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

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  3. 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 steak
Is the main protein; cooked until rare, it stays tender and juicy.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour into the gravy and coating the meat.

The step that matters

Keep the gravy below a boil. Gentle heat keeps the gravy smooth and prevents the butter from separating. Boiling can toughen the meat and break the emulsion, leaving a greasy, grainy sauce.

“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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