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EXcELLENT Recipe for Sausage

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

EXcELLENT Recipe for Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the back fat into small pieces and chop it finely.

  2. Chop the lean meat very fine.

  3. Mix the chopped fat and lean meat together.

  4. Add the salt, sage, black pepper, sweet marjoram, and thyme.

  5. Knead the mixture well to combine all ingredients.

  6. Press the mixture into small pots and pour melted lard over the top.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Sage + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together507 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Sage + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,485 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper, marjoram, thyme):

  1. Winter savoryfits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, marjoram, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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