Name: Seasoning for Sausage
Ingredients: 10 lbs pork; 4 oz coarse sea salt; 1 oz black pepper; ½ oz coriander

Why it works: Pepper and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,949 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Seasoning for Sausage

Ingredients

10 lbs pork
4 oz coarse sea salt
1 oz black pepper
½ oz coriander

Directions

Combine the pork, coarse sea salt, black pepper, and coriander in a large bowl.
Mix thoroughly until the spices are evenly distributed throughout the pork.

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.

Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,949 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,121 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pork + coriandertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together909 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).