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A recipe for homemade sausage using sausage meat, salt, summer savory, sage, and black pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Summer savory and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 237 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

For Making Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the sausage meat finely and remove all gristle and tough parts.

  2. In a bowl, combine the salt, summer savory, sage, and ground pepper.

Season and store

  1. Knead the seasoning mixture into the sausage meat thoroughly.

  2. Pack the seasoned meat into stone jars and store in a cold place, avoiding freezing.

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. Summer savory + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + summer savorytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Forms the body of the dish and carries the seasoning throughout.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the meat and helps preserve it during cold storage.
Summer savory
Adds a peppery, herbal aroma that flavors the meat.
Sage
Adds a warm, earthy aroma that complements the pork.
Ground black pepper
Adds sharp, mildly hot flavor and aroma to the meat.

The step that matters

Knead the seasoning mixture into the sausage meat thoroughly. Salt draws out proteins that bind the meat, so even distribution of salt and herbs ensures consistent seasoning and a uniformly firm texture. Uneven kneading leaves pockets of salt and herbs that taste harsh or bland.

Swap the summer savory

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, sage, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Summer savorythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sage, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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