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Frankfurt Sausage Formulas

This recipe uses saltpeter, which should be handled with care.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,474 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Frankfurt Sausage Formulas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the pork cheek meat and lean trimmings in a large mixing bowl.

  2. Add the sausage flour, white pepper, black pepper, coriander, mace, garlic, and saltpeter.

  3. Mix thoroughly until all ingredients are well combined.

  4. Stuff the mixture into sheep casings, ensuring there are no air pockets.

  5. Tie off the ends of the casings securely.

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. Coriander + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,474 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. White pepper + macetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Pork + meattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

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

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, meat, flour, pepper, coriander, mace, garlic):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, meat, flour, pepper, coriander, mace, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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