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Pork Sausage

A sausage made from lean pork trimmings, boiled rice, spices, and salt, stuffed into hog casings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Pork Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the lean pork trimmings well.

  2. Mix the chopped pork with the boiled rice thoroughly.

  3. Add the white pepper, cayenne pepper, and fine salt to the mixture and mix well.

Stuff

  1. Stuff the mixture into hog casings.

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 + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  3. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. White pepper + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Rice + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean pork trimmings
Provide the meat and fat that form the body of the sausage.
Boiled rice
Adds bulk and moisture, helping the sausage stay tender and juicy.
Fine salt
Seasons the meat and helps draw out proteins that bind the mixture.

The step that matters

Mix the seasonings evenly into the mixture. Uneven mixing leaves pockets of strong cayenne and white pepper in some links and bland meat in others. Thorough mixing spreads the salt and spices evenly so every bite seasons the same.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, rice, 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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