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Breast, or Shoulder, of Venison

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Horse and radish work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Breast, or Shoulder, of Venison

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the venison as directed.

  2. Garnish with horse-radish.

  3. Serve with potatoes and melted butter.

  4. Optionally, serve with greens.

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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Radish + potatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

  3. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Venison + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together957 recipes

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

  5. Horse + potatotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, horse, potato, butter):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Radishthe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, horse, potato, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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