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Creole Sausages

Sausages simmered in tomatoes with garlic, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,076 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Creole Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wipe the sausages with a damp cloth.

  2. Prick the sausages with a fork.

  3. Peel the fresh tomatoes and slice them.

  4. Bruise the small clove of garlic.

Simmer

  1. Add the sliced tomatoes to the saucepan with the sausages.

  2. Add the bruised garlic to the sausages.

  3. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.

  4. Cover the saucepan.

  5. Simmer gently for 30 minutes.

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. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 rich, savoury fat that flavours the sauce.
Fresh tomatoes
Supply moisture and acidity that form the sauce as they cook down.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for 30 minutes. A gentle simmer lets the sausages cook through and release fat and flavour slowly, while a hard boil can toughen the meat and break the tomato sauce.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, garlic, pepper):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, garlic, pepper. 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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