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Venison

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Red wine and clove work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 849 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Venison

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare currants and steep bread in cream.

  2. Cut down the marrow and mix with currants.

  3. Add garlic, juice or vinegar, sugar, red wine, and coarse sea salt.

  4. If the mixture is not firm enough, add a little cloves and eggs.

  5. Bake, boil, or fry the mixture as fritters or an omelet.

  6. Serve with jelly sauce.

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. Red wine + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Vinegar + red winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the clove

The recipe marks clove as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (currant, bread, cream, garlic, vinegar, sugar, red wine):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Clovethe original
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against currant, bread, cream, garlic, vinegar, sugar, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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