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Potato Sausages

A fried sausage made from mashed potatoes, minced meat, egg, and breadcrumbs, seasoned with nutmeg, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,015 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mash the cold potatoes and mince the cold meat.

  2. Mix the potatoes and meat together, seasoning nicely with nutmeg, pepper, and salt.

  3. Combine the mixture with half of the beaten egg to form a paste.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into sausages, then dip in the remaining egg and coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the sausages in hot fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve in a pyramid shape and garnish with fried 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. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Nutmeg + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,997 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold potatoes
Form the bulk of the filling and give the sausages a soft, starchy body.
Cold meat
Adds savoury flavour and substance to the potato base.
Egg
Binds the mixture into a paste and gives the coated sausages a set exterior.

The step that matters

Combine the mixture with half of the beaten egg to form a paste.. The egg is the binder that holds the potato and meat together. Too little binds poorly and the sausages may crumble in the hot fat, while the mixture must be firm enough to shape without being wet.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, nutmeg, pepper, 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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