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Fried Venison

Fried Venison is a dish of sliced venison seasoned with salt and pepper, coated in flour, and fried with bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,459 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fried Venison

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the venison into slices.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Dip each slice in flour.

Cook

  1. Fry in a pan with bacon until cooked through.

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. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Venison + peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together955 recipes

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

  3. Venison + flourtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together667 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Venison
Forms the main protein of the dish, cooking through to become tender and savory.
Flour
Coats the slices, helping them brown and form a crisp surface when fried.
Bacon
Adds fat and smoky flavor to the pan, which the venison cooks in.

The step that matters

Fry until cooked through. Venison is lean, so it can turn dry if overcooked, yet it must be cooked through. Frying over steady heat and checking doneness keeps the slices juicy while ensuring they are safely cooked.

“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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