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Potato Sausage

A small patty of veal and mashed potatoes seasoned, floured, and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine the cold veal and cold mashed potatoes.

  2. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into small cakes.

  2. Dust each cake with flour.

  3. Fry the cakes in a skillet over medium heat until light brown on both sides.

  4. If available, fry them in sausage gravy for added flavor.

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. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Veal + potatotop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold veal
Provides the meaty base and savory flavor of the sausage cakes.
Cold mashed potatoes
Binds the mixture and adds moisture and a soft, tender texture.
Flour
Dusted on the cakes to help them brown evenly in the skillet.

The step that matters

Frying the cakes until light brown on both sides. Browning occurs through the Maillard reaction, which needs a dry surface and steady medium heat. Cooking too hot can scorch the flour before the centre heats through, while too little heat leaves the cakes pale and soggy.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, flour. 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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