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Beef Sausages

A sausage made from finely chopped lean beef and suet seasoned with salt, pepper, mixed spice, and shallots.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Remove all skin, bone, and gristle from the beef and suet.

  2. Chop the beef and suet very finely and mix well with salt, pepper, mixed spice, and shallots.

Form and cook

  1. Form the mixture into sausages.

  2. Fry the sausages in a pan until they are nicely browned, about 10 to 12 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with mashed 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. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  3. Beef + shallottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,103 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

Beef
Provides the main lean meat that forms the bulk and firm texture of the sausage.
Suet
Adds fat that melts during frying, keeping the sausages moist and rich.
Mixed spice
Adds warm aromatic flavour to the meat.

The step that matters

Fry the sausages until nicely browned. Suet melts as the sausages cook, so frying over moderate heat lets the outside brown and crisp while the inside cooks through without drying out.

Swap the shallot

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, 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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