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Sharp Sauce for Venison

A vinegar-based sauce with sugar, simmered and strained for use with venison.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,493 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Sharp Sauce for Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the white-wine vinegar and pounded loaf sugar in a saucepan.

  2. Simmer gently until the sugar dissolves.

  3. Skim off any foam that forms on the surface.

  4. Strain the sauce through a fine sieve or tamis.

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. Wine + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Wine + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

White-wine vinegar
Provides the sharp acidity that defines the sauce and balances the sugar.
Loaf sugar
Dissolves into the vinegar to add sweetness and soften its sharpness.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the sugar dissolves. Boiling vigorously can reduce and concentrate the vinegar too quickly and cause the sugar to caramelise or darken. A gentle simmer dissolves the sugar evenly while keeping the sauce clear and balanced.

“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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