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Sausages made with tomato pulp, salt, cayenne pepper, and white sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Sausages, Tomato

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomato pulp

  1. Cook ripe tomatoes in a saucepan until soft.

  2. Pass the cooked tomatoes through a sieve to remove skins and seeds.

  3. Put the tomato pulp back in the pan, add salt, cayenne, and sugar. Stir and boil for about 10 minutes.

  4. Transfer the mixture to an earthen vessel and let it cool.

Combine and shape

  1. Weigh the cooled pulp before mixing it with the pork sausage meat.

  2. Make the sausages fresh as needed.

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

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

  2. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

  3. Pork + meattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  5. Meat + tomatotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork sausage meat
Forms the main body of the sausage and supplies fat and meaty flavour.
Tomato pulp
Adds moisture, acidity and tomato flavour to the meat.

The step that matters

Boil the tomato pulp for about 10 minutes. Boiling reduces the water in the pulp, concentrating its flavour and keeping the cooled mixture from making the sausage meat too wet and loose.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, meat, pepper, sugar. 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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