Deer Marinade

Summary

A venison (deer meat) marinade recipe, handwritten onto a printed floral recipe card, explicitly attributed to "John Thomas" and marked as a secret recipe not to be shared.

Key contents

• Title on card: "Deer Marinade" (filled into the printed card's blank "Recipe ___" line). "Serves" line left blank.
• Attribution line on card, as written: "Secret Recipe — John Thomas / DO NOT GIVE IT OUT." — captured here verbatim as the card's own instruction; the Vault holds no publication policy and this note is recorded as source content only, not acted upon.
• Ingredients: 2/3 cup soy sauce · 1/2 cup brown sugar · 6 Tablespoons dry sherry · 4 large cloves minced garlic · 4 Tablespoons oil
• Method: Heat until warm and sugar is dissolved. Pour over meat. Marinade at least 3 hours; overnight is recommended.
• Card stock is a printed "Recipe / serves ___" floral template (pink/orange/purple flowers), manufacturer mark "69-905," copyright line "© 1981 Stylecraft, Baltimore, MD 21230, Printed in U.S.A." — this is a print date for the blank card stock, not a date for when the recipe was written on it.
• Checked against the 107 already-filed recipe titles supplied for collision-checking — no "Deer Marinade" or similar found there.