Name: Baked Saddle of Venison
Ingredients: 1 saddle of venison (about 10 pounds); salt pork (cut into strips, 2 inches long)

Why it works: Venison and pork work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 243 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Baked Saddle of Venison

Ingredients

1 saddle of venison (about 10 pounds)
salt pork (cut into strips, 2 inches long)

Directions

Wash the saddle of venison thoroughly, ensuring no hairs remain on the outside.
Cut salt pork into strips about 2 inches long.

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.

Venison + porktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together243 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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Baked Saddle of Venison