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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

About Scrapple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the heart, liver, smelt, sweetbreads, upper head, rinds, and lean pieces of a pig until well done.

  2. Remove the meat from the liquid, take out the bones, and chop the meat while hot.

  3. Return the chopped meat to the hot liquid and season with salt, pepper, and sage to taste.

  4. Thicken the mixture with buckwheat flour while boiling hot until it cleaves from the kettle.

  5. Pour the mixture into deep square pans and let it cool.

  6. For breakfast, cut thick slices and fry in a little lard in a hot skillet.

  7. Brown one side, then turn carefully without poking to maintain shape.

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. Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sage + buckwheattop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

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

  4. Liver + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).

  5. Sage + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the buckwheat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, smelt, pepper, sage, flour):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Buckwheatthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, smelt, pepper, sage, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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