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 Tor Venison
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the venison trimmings into small pieces.
Pour the mutton broth over the trimmings.
Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours.
Add a little coarse sea salt to the gravy before serving.
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.
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Venison + muttontop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together279 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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What each ingredient does
- Venison trimmings
- Provide the meat and fat that give the gravy its savory, rich body.
- Mutton broth
- Serves as the cooking liquid that extracts flavor and gelatin from the meat.
The step that matters
Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours. Gentle, slow simmering lets collagen in the trimmings break down into gelatin, which thickens the liquid and gives body. Rushing with high heat can toughen the meat and leave the gravy thin and greasy.
“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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