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Sausages with Apples

Sausages with Apples is a dish of sausages cooked in ways and served with apples, fried bread, mashed potatoes, boiled water, eggs, or roasted potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg 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 ↓

Sausages with Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Cook and arrange

  1. Cook the sausages in a pan until they are light brown.

  2. Arrange the sausages in the center of a dish.

  3. Place the apples around the sausages.

Serve

  1. Fry the sausages without apples.

  2. Serve the fried sausages on fried bread with mashed potatoes.

  3. Simmer the sausages in boiling water for about five minutes.

  4. Serve the simmered sausages with poached eggs or roasted potatoes.

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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  2. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

  3. Apple + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together603 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sausages
Provide the main protein, and frying in a pan browns their surface for flavor.
Apples
Add sweetness and a tart, fruity note that balances the rich sausage.
Eggs
Set when poached, giving a soft, creamy texture alongside the sausages.
Mashed potatoes
Starch gives a soft, smooth body that soaks up the juices from the sausages.

The step that matters

Simmer the sausages in boiling water for about five minutes. Water that is only gently simmering heats sausages evenly, while a hard rolling boil can split the casings and dry out the meat.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, bread, egg. 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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