Name: Noisettes De Venaison a LA Romanoff — Noisettes of Venison
Ingredients: venison saddle, cut into 1-inch thick noisettes; port wine sauce; sweet potato croquettes

Why it works: Venison and port wine work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 239 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Noisettes De Venaison a LA Romanoff — Noisettes of Venison

Ingredients

venison saddle, cut into 1-inch thick noisettes
port wine sauce
sweet potato croquettes

Directions

Cut the noisettes from the venison saddle about 1 inch thick.
Cook the noisettes until they are underdone.
Plate the noisettes and pour port wine sauce over them.
Garnish with sweet potato croquettes.

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.

Venison + port winetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together239 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Port wine + saucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together424 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + sweet potatotop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Venison + saucetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together208 recipes
Venison + sweet potatotop 35% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).