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Cooked Marinade for Venison

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cooked Marinade for Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat ½ pint of oil in a large pot over medium heat.

  2. Add the minced carrots and onions, stirring frequently until they begin to brown.

  3. Add the minced shallots, crushed garlic, and the herb bundle.

  4. Pour in 1 pint of vinegar, 2 bottles of white wine, and 3 quarts of water.

  5. Cook the marinade for 20 minutes.

  6. Stir in 2 oz of salt, ½ oz of peppercorns, and 4 oz of brown sugar.

  7. Cook for an additional 10 minutes.

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. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, parsley, rosemary, thyme, garlic, clove, shallot):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, parsley, rosemary, thyme, garlic, clove, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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