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Orange Sauce for Game

A sauce made from orange fillets, demi-glaze or broth, sugar, and optional citrus juice, cayenne, and mustard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Orange Sauce for Game

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the orange

  1. Peel half an orange, removing all the pith, and cut it into slices and then into fillets.

  2. Boil the orange fillets in ½ cup of water for 2 minutes, then drain and discard the water.

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine 2 tablespoons of demi-glaze or 10 tablespoons of broth and bring to a boil.

  2. Add the orange fillets and 1 teaspoon of sugar, then simmer for 10 minutes.

  3. Skim the sauce and serve.

  4. Optionally, add the juice of ½ orange, cayenne, and mustard to taste.

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. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Orange + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + mustardtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Orange
Provides the citrus flavour and aroma that defines the sauce.
Demi-glaze
Adds concentrated savoury body and depth to the sauce.
Sugar
Balances the acidity of the orange and adds sweetness.

Swap the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pepper, mustard):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pepper, mustard. 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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