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Venison Boiled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 ↓

Venison Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Salt the venison for a week or ten days.

  2. Boil the venison according to the usual rules for boiled meat.

  3. Prepare a variety of vegetables: mash turnips with cream and butter, separate cauliflower into sprigs, slice carrots and beetroot, and cook spinach.

  4. Serve the venison with melted butter, horseradish, or garlic sauce.

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. Spinach + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Turnip + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Endivefits better
  4. Carrotthe original

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

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