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A Neck of Venison, Braised, and Roots

Braised venison neck cooked with root vegetables in a seasoned broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A Neck of Venison, Braised, and Roots

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and brown

  1. Season the neck of venison with salt and pepper.

  2. In a large pot, brown the venison on all sides.

Braise

  1. Add chopped roots and enough water or broth to cover the meat.

  2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until the venison is tender.

Serve

  1. Serve the venison with the cooked roots.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Turnip + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Venison + carrottop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together169 recipes

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

  5. Venison + peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together955 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Venison neck
Tough connective tissue breaks down into gelatin during long, gentle simmering, making the meat tender and moist.
Assorted roots
Starchy and sweet, they soften during braising and add body and sweetness to the cooking liquid.
Water or broth
Provides the moist cooking liquid that transfers heat evenly and keeps the meat from drying out.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Collagen in the neck turns into gelatin slowly at low, steady heat. A hard boil tightens muscle fibres and dries the surface, so keep the liquid at a gentle simmer and allow the full time.

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, carrot, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Parsnipfits about as well
  3. Turnipthe original
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, carrot, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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