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Pecan Sausage

Pecan sausage is a savory patty made from pecan meal, onion, and sage, baked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,628 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pecan Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Soak the onion in water until soft but not mushy.

  2. Add pecan meal, sage, grated onion, and salt; mix well.

Shape and bake

  1. Form the mixture into round pancakes about ½ inch thick.

  2. Place on oiled baking sheets and bake until browned on both sides.

Serve

  1. Serve on a platter with pecan 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.

Explore the science

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 + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Zwieola
Provides the main dry body that holds the pancakes together.
Pecan meal
Adds nutty flavor and fat that help keep the pancakes tender.
Grated onion
Adds moisture and savory aroma to the mixture.

The step that matters

Browning both sides. Pancakes of uneven thickness or heat can brown unevenly, so the cook should check and turn them until both sides are evenly golden. Turning only once can leave the centre pale or dry.

“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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