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Another Gravy for Venison

A gravy made by stewing venison trimmings in mutton broth with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Venison and mutton work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 279 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Another Gravy for Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the venison trimmings into small pieces.

  2. Pour the mutton broth over the venison.

  3. Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours.

  4. Add a little coarse sea salt to the gravy before serving.

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 + muttontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together279 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Venison trimmings
Supplies the meat flavor and, after slow stewing, the tender texture and body of the gravy.
Mutton broth
Forms the liquid base and adds savory flavor that the stewed meat enriches.

The step that matters

Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours. Gentle, low heat slowly breaks down the connective tissue in the trimmings, making the meat tender and releasing gelatin that gives the gravy body. Rushing with high heat can toughen the meat and reduce the liquid too quickly.

“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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