Why it works: Venison and meat work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 126 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
To Prepare Venison for Pasty
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the bones from the venison.
Season and beat the meat.
Cut the meat into large pieces.
Place the meat into a stone jar.
Pour some liquid over the meat.
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 + meattop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together126 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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