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An Excellent Sausage to Eat Cold

This recipe uses saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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An Excellent Sausage to Eat Cold

Why it works: Pepper and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,395 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

An Excellent Sausage to Eat Cold

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the lean and fat pork with coarse sea salt, saltpetre, black pepper, and allspice, all in fine powder, and rub into the meat.

  2. On the sixth day, cut the meat small and mix it with finely shredded shallot or garlic.

  3. Prepare an ox intestine that has been scoured, salted, and soaked well.

  4. Fill the intestine with the meat mixture, tie up the ends, and hang it to smoke like hams, wrapping it in old muslin first.

  5. Ensure it is high-dried. Some eat it without boiling, while others prefer it boiled.

  6. Tie the skin in different places to make each link about eight or nine inches long.

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. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Allspice + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pork + shallottop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

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

Swap the shallot

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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