Fried Sausage
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
If desired, season the sausage.
Form the sausage into small flat cakes.
Cook
Place the cakes in a frying pan and cover with hot water.
Boil for 1 hour until the water evaporates.
Pour off the grease and brown the sausage until rich in color.
Add a little hot water to the frying pan and bring to a boil.
Serve
Serve the sausage with the hot water from the pan.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Sausage
- Provides the main protein and fat, which renders out and helps the cakes brown in the pan.
- Hot water
- Cooks the sausage gently first, then forms a simple pan liquid to serve with it.
The step that matters
Pour off the grease and brown the sausage. Once the water has evaporated, the sausage fat is released into the pan. Pouring it off before browning keeps the cakes from frying in grease, letting the surface brown and develop colour instead of becoming greasy.
“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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