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Venison Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Venison Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Poivrade Sauce for game as previously described.

  2. Dissolve the red-currant jelly.

  3. Mix the dissolved jelly with the fresh cream.

  4. Add the mixture to the sauce away from the fire.

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. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Currant + creamtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,829 recipes
  3. Sauce + curranttop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together628 recipes

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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