Why it works: Venison and carrot work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 169 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
To Hash Venison
Ingredients
Directions
In a clean saucepan, arrange the venison slices and pour the gravy over them.
Let the venison stand for at least 10 minutes.
Place the saucepan near the fire and slowly bring to a boil.
Serve the hash immediately in a hot-water dish.
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.
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Venison + carrottop 26% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together169 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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What each ingredient does
- Venison
- Provides the meat that forms the body of the hash, and its slices soak up flavour from the gravy.
- Brown gravy
- Supplies moisture, savoury flavour and body that coats the meat as the hash heats.
- Arrow-root or brown roux
- Thickens the liquid so the gravy clings to the venison rather than running thin.
The step that matters
Bringing the hash to a boil slowly. Heating gently near the fire and avoiding a hard, rapid boil helps keep the thin venison slices tender and stops the thickened gravy from scorching or breaking.
“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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