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Tip of Venison Saddle Roasted

Roasted venison saddle with a creamy cheese sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Tip of Venison Saddle Roasted

Oven, in the book's wordsA rather quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a rather quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Lard the venison saddle with firm salt pork.

  2. Brush with butter and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and flour.

  3. Place in a well-buttered baking dish.

Bake and finish

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 45 minutes.

  2. Prepare a sauce with chicken broth, thick cream, and grated cheese.

  3. Pour the sauce over the venison and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes.

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. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Venison saddle
The lean meat that forms the body of the roast.
Firm salt pork or lard
Adds fat that bastes the lean venison and keeps it moist as it roasts.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the surface and helps it brown.
Flour
Dusted on the surface, it helps the outside brown and thicken the juices.
Chicken broth
Forms the liquid base of the sauce, adding savoury moisture.
Grated cheese
Melts into the sauce, adding salty flavour and a browned, savoury crust.

The step that matters

Pouring the sauce and finishing the bake. Sauce containing cream and cheese can separate or scorch if it boils hard, so keep the oven heat steady and watch the top closely during the final 10-15 minutes.

“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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