Name: Venison Steaks
Ingredients: venison steaks; melted butter; bread crumbs

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Venison Steaks

Ingredients

venison steaks
melted butter
bread crumbs

Directions

Season the venison steaks.
Dip the seasoned steaks in melted butter.
Coat the buttered steaks in bread crumbs.

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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Venison + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together957 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Venison + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together116 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).