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For Making Sausage

A recipe for homemade sausage using sausage meat, salt, summer savory, sage, and black pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Summer savory and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 237 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

For Making Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Select and chop the sausage meat finely, removing all gristle and tough parts.

Season

  1. In a bowl, combine the salt, summer savory, sage, and black pepper.

  2. Knead the seasoning mixture into the sausage meat thoroughly.

  3. Adjust the amount of sage and summer savory to taste, but do not add more salt.

Store

  1. Pack the seasoned sausage meat into jars and store in a cool place, avoiding freezing.

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. Summer savory + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

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

  2. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  3. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

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

  5. Meat + summer savorytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together73 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

Sausage meat
Forms the bulk of the product and carries the flavour of the seasoning.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the meat and helps draw out moisture and bind the mixture.
Summer savory
Adds a peppery, herbal aroma that flavours the sausage.
Sage
Adds a warm, earthy aroma typical of sausage seasoning.
Black pepper
Adds a sharp, mildly hot flavour that balances the rich meat.

The step that matters

Knead the seasoning mixture into the sausage meat thoroughly. Salt and seasonings must be evenly distributed through the meat; uneven mixing leaves bland or overly salty pockets. Salt also helps proteins bind, giving a better texture.

Swap the summer savory

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Summer savorythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sage, 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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