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Another Gravy Eor Venison

A simple venison gravy made by stewing venison trimmings in cold 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 Eor Venison

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the venison trimmings into small pieces.

  2. Pour the cold mutton broth over the venison.

Cook

  1. Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours.

  2. 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
Provides the meat flavour and body that the gravy is built on.
Mutton broth
Forms the liquid base that extracts flavour from the meat during slow stewing.

The step that matters

Stew the mixture slowly for 2 hours. Slow, gentle heat lets the connective tissue in the trimmings break down and release gelatin and flavour into the liquid. Rushing with a hard boil can toughen the meat and leave the gravy cloudy and thin.

“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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