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A smoked sausage made with beef, tongues, ham, bacon fat, sugar, and spices, cured and smoked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,949 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Boil the tongues moderately, then peel them and cut off the gross root tip.

  2. Cut all the meat into large dice.

  3. Pound the diced meat thoroughly, mixing in the fat evenly.

  4. Remove all skins and sinews from the meat.

  5. Mix in the sugar and let the mixture sit for two days.

Season and mellow

  1. Combine the sage, garlic, shallots, bay leaf, and chillies.

  2. Sift the spices and blend them with the meat.

  3. Place the mixture in a jar and seal it tightly.

  4. Let it sit for a week to mellow.

  5. Taste the mixture and, if needed, adjust the seasoning.

Stuff, cook and smoke

  1. Fill the sausage skins and prick the filled skins lightly.

  2. Simmer the sausages in boiling water for 45 minutes.

  3. Remove the sausages from the water, let them cool, and wipe them.

  4. Smoke them for three weeks using oak lops and dust.

  5. Store the sausages in a dry room with hams and tongues.

  6. They will be ready in a month.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + capsicumtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,871 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sage + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,025 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + capsicumtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Beef + capsicumtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,125 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rough smoked beef
Provides the main meat body and a smoky flavour throughout the sausage.
Fat of bacon
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the pounded meat juicy as it cooks and dries.
Moist sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the salty, smoked and spiced flavours.
Garlic
Contributes pungent aroma that mellows during the long resting period.
Chillies or capsicum
Adds heat and pepperiness to the seasoning.

The step that matters

Pound the diced meat thoroughly, mixing in the fat evenly. Thorough pounding breaks the meat into a fine, cohesive mass, and even fat distribution keeps the sausage moist and prevents greasy or crumbly pockets as it dries and smokes.

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, ham, sugar, garlic, shallot, capsicum):

  1. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, ham, sugar, garlic, shallot, capsicum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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