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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,476 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Sausage Recipes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the pork and belly finely.

  2. Roast the shallots in butter until light yellow, then rub them fine with a pinch of salt and add to the pork mixture.

  3. Mix in the fine salt, ground mace, thyme, white pepper, white ginger, and dried mushrooms.

  4. For wrapping, use a belly from which the ribs have been cut, about two-tenths of an inch thick.

  5. Place a slice on the table, add three-fourths of an inch of the pork mixture, leaving four inches uncovered on each side.

  6. Layer well-salted boiled tongue on top, then add goose livers, truffles, and boiled green pistachios.

  7. Cover with another layer of the pork mixture.

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. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Shallot + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, shallot, butter, mace, thyme, ginger, mushroom):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, shallot, butter, mace, thyme, ginger, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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