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Peanut Sausages

Peanut sausages are small cakes made from peanut butter, breadcrumbs, herbs, and water, baked or pan‑fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,445 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Peanut Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Dissolve the peanut butter in 2 tablespoons of water.

  2. Add the gluten, sage, salt, and parsley; mix well.

  3. Form the mixture into small cakes with your hands.

  4. Place the cakes on an oiled baking sheet.

Cook and serve

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven or cook on the stove, flipping to cook both sides.

  2. Once done, transfer to a platter and serve with Peanut Gravy.

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. Sage + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanut butter
Provides fat and nutty flavour, and binds the cakes together.
Gluten or dry bread crumbs
Provides the structure that holds the cakes together while cooking.
Dried sage
Adds the savoury, herbal aroma typical of sausage flavour.

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread, sage, parsley):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, sage, parsley. 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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