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Tomato Sausages

Sausages made from ground mutton, mutton fat, canned tomatoes, cracker dust, rice, and seasoning.

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 mixture

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

  2. Transfer the ground meat to a mixing bowl.

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

Stuff and link

  1. Fill the mixture into sheep casings 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 meaty body and structure of the sausage.
Mutton fat
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the sausage juicy as it cooks.
Cracker dust
Acts as a binder that absorbs moisture and helps the filling hold together.
Granulated rice
Absorbs liquid and fat, adding body and a softer texture to the filling.
Canned tomatoes
Contributes moisture, acidity and flavour to the seasoned mixture.

The step that matters

Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Even mixing spreads the fat, rice and cracker dust through the meat, so each sausage holds together and cooks consistently. Uneven mixing leaves pockets of fat and dry or crumbly spots.

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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