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A mixture of ground meat seasoned with pepper, salt, and optional sage, stuffed into casings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sausage Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind and mix the meat with black pepper, salt, and sage if desired.

  2. Stuff the mixture into casings or bags.

  3. Hang the stuffed meat in a cool place and use while fresh.

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Meat + sagetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Meat
Forms the bulk of the sausage and provides the protein structure that holds it together.
Black pepper
Adds a sharp, aromatic bite that seasons the meat throughout.
Sage
Adds an herbal aroma that gives the sausage its classic savory flavor.

Swap the sage

The recipe marks sage as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, 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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