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Hashed Venison

Hashed venison is a stew of sliced venison simmered in a sauce of butter, flour, shallots, Port wine, veal broth, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Hashed Venison

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Cut the underdone venison into slices and place them in a stewpan.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan.

  3. Add flour and chopped shallots, and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.

  4. Stir in the Port wine, veal broth, gravy, lemon peel, Cayenne pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

  5. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for 15 minutes.

  6. Strain the mixture over the venison.

Heat and serve

  1. Simmer the venison gently in boiling water until thoroughly hot.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Shallot + port winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Venison + port winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Venison
Is the main protein, gently reheated so it stays tender and is served hot.
Flour
Thickens the butter and shallot base into a roux that gives the sauce body.
Butter
Carries the shallots and flour and adds richness to the sauce.
Shallots
Soften over low heat and add a mild, sweet onion flavour to the sauce.
Port wine
Adds sweetness and depth, and its acidity balances the rich gravy.

The step that matters

Simmer the venison gently in boiling water until thoroughly hot. The venison is already underdone, so it needs gentle heat to warm through without toughening. Vigorous boiling can make meat firm and dry, so keep the water at a simmer.

“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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