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Game, Salmi of

A stew of game meat simmered with stock, wine, and seasonings, thickened with butter and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and red wine work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 849 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Game, Salmi of

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stock

  1. Stick the cloves into the onion and place it in a stewpan with the stock, bones, trimmings of game, lemon peel, black peppercorns, and Worcestershire sauce.

  2. Simmer for 1 hour.

  3. Thicken with butter and flour.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Finish and serve

  1. Add Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, and red wine.

  2. Add the game cut into neat pieces and heat thoroughly without boiling.

  3. Serve in an entree dish.

  4. Garnish with croutons.

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.

Explore the science

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. Clove + red winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Clove + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Pheasant + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Partridge or pheasant
Provides the main meat and gamey flavour of the stew.
Butter
Enriches the sauce and, with flour, helps thicken it.
Flour
Thickens the liquid into a smooth, body-rich sauce when cooked with butter.
Red wine
Adds acidity and depth of flavour to the sauce.
Onion
Releases sweetness and aromatic flavour into the stock as it simmers.

The step that matters

Heat the game without boiling. Once the game goes into the sauce, boiling toughens the meat and can make it dry and stringy. Gentle heat keeps it tender while it warms through.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pheasant, onion, clove, flour, red wine, sauce, butter):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pheasant, onion, clove, flour, red wine, sauce, butter. 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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