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A roasted venison prepared with dripping, salt, water, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Venison and flour work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 667 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

To Roast Venison

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Set the dripping pan before the fire.

  2. Add some dripping, a little salt, and water to the pan.

  3. Balance the meat properly on the spit.

Roast

  1. Baste the meat with the mixture.

  2. Cover it with paper.

  3. Baste immediately after placing it down.

  4. Keep the meat at a distance from the fire.

  5. Stir the fire to maintain heat.

  6. When nearly done, remove the paper.

  7. Place it near the fire, baste, dredge with flour, and sprinkle with salt.

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. Venison + flourtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together667 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Venison
Is the main cut being roasted, so its own juices and fat shape the finished meat.
Dripping
Adds fat to the pan that moistens the surface and carries flavour as the meat roasts.
Flour
Dusted on the meat near the end, it helps form a browned, slightly crisp crust.

The step that matters

Keep the meat at a distance from the fire. Direct, intense heat can scorch the outside before the centre cooks through. Holding the meat back and basting keeps the heat gentle and the surface evenly browned.

“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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