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A Haunch or Neck of Venison

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 336 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A Haunch or Neck of Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lay the venison in coarse sea salt for a week.

  2. Boil the venison in a floured cloth, allowing 15 minutes per pound.

  3. Boil cauliflower in milk and water until tender.

  4. Prepare turnips and beetroot by cutting them into small pieces.

  5. Mash the turnips with cream and butter.

  6. Layer the vegetables in a dish: cauliflower, mashed turnips, boiled cabbage, and beetroot as desired.

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. Turnip + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cauliflower + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cauliflower + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cauliflower + cabbagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, flour, milk, cauliflower, turnip, beetroot, cream):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

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

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