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Sausage Eggs

A dish of hard‑boiled eggs wrapped in sausage, fried and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sausage Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggs hard, then drop them into cold water for 1 minute.

  2. Remove the shells and the skins from the sausages.

  3. Divide the sausage into 4 equal parts.

  4. Flour your hands.

Shape and fry

  1. Flatten the sausage meat in your palm, place one egg in the center, and cover the egg completely with sausage meat.

  2. Repeat for all eggs.

  3. Brush the sausage-covered eggs with beaten raw egg.

  4. Fry in hot fat for 4 to 5 minutes until golden brown.

  5. Drain the fried sausage eggs.

Serve

  1. Cut them in half lengthwise.

  2. Serve on lace paper.

  3. Garnish with parsley.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Form the firm, sliced centre of each sausage-wrapped piece.
Sausage
Forms the savoury meat casing that surrounds and seasons each egg.
Raw egg
Beaten raw egg brushed on the outside helps the coating bind and brown when fried.
Bread crumbs
Listed in the record, but no method step states how they are used.

The step that matters

Covering the eggs completely with sausage. Any gap in the sausage layer leaves egg exposed, and the wrapper must be sealed well so it holds together during frying.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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