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Small Sausages

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Small Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the cleaned entrails thoroughly.

  2. Chop red and white apple or quince paste like sausage meat.

  3. Add apricots, cherries, and any other fruit, along with currants and coriander seeds.

  4. Fill the entrails with the mixture and tie a knot at each end with thread.

  5. Roll the sausage in your hands with a drop of sweet almond oil.

  6. Cut the sausage lengthwise or across as desired.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Red currant + white curranttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Red currant + almondtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Apricot + red curranttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Swap the white currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, apricot, red currant, coriander, almond):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. White currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, apricot, red currant, coriander, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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