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Fish Sausages

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,214 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fish Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the fish thoroughly.

  2. Smoke the fish until well done.

  3. Finely grind the smoked fish and raw pork in a sausage mill.

  4. Mix in the necessary spices and optional dry powdered onion.

  5. Stuff the mixture into casings.

  6. Boil the sausages and then smoke them again.

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 + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  2. Haddock + oniontop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together483 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + porktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, pork):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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