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Rice and Sausage

Rice and sausage is a dish of boiled rice mixed with sausage meat, seasoned with garlic, allspice, and walnut or mushroom ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 553 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Rice and Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice for 20 minutes or until tender.

  2. Drain and dry the rice.

Combine and serve

  1. Mix the rice with an equal quantity of boiled sausage meat.

  2. Season the cooking liquid with garlic, allspice, and ketchup.

  3. Wet the sausage and rice mixture with the seasoned liquid.

  4. Press the mixture firmly into a bowl and turn it out onto a hot dish.

  5. Garnish with fried calf's brains or serve with roast veal.

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. Allspice + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together553 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Rice + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + garlictop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,358 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + allspicetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,379 recipes

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

  5. Rice + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 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

Rice
Provides the starchy bulk that gives the dish its body and holds its shape.
Sausage meat
Adds fat and savoury richness, binding the rice into a cohesive mass.
Walnut or mushroom ketchup
Contributes concentrated savoury, umami flavour to the cooking liquid.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma to the seasoned cooking liquid.
Allspice
Adds warm, aromatic spice notes to the seasoned cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Press the mixture firmly into a bowl and turn it out onto a hot dish.. Firm packing removes air pockets and brings the grains into close contact, so the mould holds together when turned out. Loose packing lets it crumble.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, meat, allspice, walnut):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, meat, allspice, walnut. 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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