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Pork Sausage

A pork sausage made with rice, white pepper, cayenne pepper, and fine 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

  1. Combine the chopped pork trimmings and boiled rice, mixing well.

  2. Add the white pepper, cayenne pepper, and fine salt to the mixture, and mix thoroughly.

  3. Stuff the mixture into hog casings to form sausages.

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

Pork trimmings
Provides protein and fat that give the sausage its body and juiciness.
Boiled rice
Absorbs moisture and fat and adds bulk, giving a lighter, looser texture.
White pepper
Adds sharp, aromatic warmth to the flavor.
Cayenne pepper
Adds heat and a pungent, peppery kick.

The step that matters

Mixing in the seasonings thoroughly. Seasonings must be evenly distributed through the meat and rice. Uneven mixing leaves some sausages bland and others overly hot or peppery.

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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