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Another Gravy for Venison

A simple gravy made by stewing venison trimmings in mutton broth and seasoning 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 trimmings.

  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
Provide the meat that gives the gravy its main flavour and body as it stews.
Mutton broth
Supplies the liquid that extracts flavour and gelatin from the meat during slow stewing.

The step that matters

Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours. Low, slow heat lets connective tissue in the trimmings break down gradually and release gelatin into the liquid. Rushing with high heat can toughen the meat and leave the gravy thin and less rich.

“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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