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Tomato Sausages

A mutton sausage flavored with tomatoes, rice, and cracker dust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,065 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Tomato Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Cut the meat into small pieces using a meat grinder.

  2. Transfer the ground meat to a mixing bowl.

Mix and fill

  1. Add the rice, tomatoes, seasoning, and cracker dust to the meat and mix all ingredients thoroughly.

  2. Fill sheep casings with the mixture and link them into 6-ounce sausages.

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 + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mutton + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mutton + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean mutton
Provides the main meat structure and savory, chewy body in the sausage.
Mutton fat
Adds fat that keeps the sausage moist and carries flavor during cooking.
Canned tomatoes
Contributes moisture and acidity that brighten the flavor of the meat.
Cracker dust
Absorbs liquid and helps bind the mixture so it holds together in links.
Granulated rice
Absorbs juices and adds bulk and a tender texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Even mixing spreads the rice, cracker dust and fat through the meat. Uneven mixing leaves dry crumbly pockets and greasy patches, so the sausages cook and slice unevenly.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, rice. 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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