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To Keep Venison

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,800 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

To Keep Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Keep the venison dry.

  2. Wash it thoroughly with milk and water.

  3. Dry it with clean cloths until no dampness remains.

  4. Dust pounded ginger over every part to prevent flies.

  5. Monitor it; it can hang for two weeks.

  6. When ready to use, wash it with lukewarm water and dry it.

  7. Use black pepper as an additional preservative.

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. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

  2. Milk + gingertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,519 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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

  5. Venison + milktop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together76 recipes

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

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

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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

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