Skip to main content

Currant Jelly Wiener Sauce

"These are the best cocktail wieners I've ever tasted! Just put in a slow cooker and forget about them, they could not be any easier. Red currant jelly is the special ingredient in this rich, sweet and tangy sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Ketchup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 260 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

24 servings
Prep10 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a large slow cooker or saucepan, whisk together the red currant jelly, Dijon-style mustard, ketchup and brown sugar.

  2. Set the slow cooker to low, or place the pan over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally until the jelly melts and the sauce is smooth, about 15 minutes.

  3. Add the little smokie sausages and stir to coat them evenly in the sauce.

  4. Cover and cook on low for about 1 hour 45 minutes, or simmer gently covered in the pan, stirring every 30 minutes, until the sauce is bubbling and the sausages are hot through to 165°F (74°C).

  5. Keep warm on low and serve with toothpicks.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Ketchup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Mustard + ketchuptop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mustard + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Red currant + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Red currant + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, ketchup, sugar):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Red currantthe original
  3. Appleabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Limeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, ketchup, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).