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Onion and Sausage Stuffing for Turkey, Chicken and Game

A savory stuffing made with sausage, onion, stale bread, and seasonings for poultry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Onion and Sausage Stuffing for Turkey, Chicken and Game

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the sausage and onion

  1. Combine sausage, sliced onion, and boiling water in a frying pan; simmer gently while cleaning the bird.

Prepare the bread

  1. Break stale bread into small pieces and crumble it well.

  2. Add salt, pepper, and any desired herbs to the crumbled bread, then mix in poultry seasoning if using.

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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  2. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

  3. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Bulk sausage
Adds fat and savory meaty flavor that carries through the whole stuffing.
Onion
Simmering softens it and adds sweetness and aroma to the stuffing.
Stale bread
Forms the body of the stuffing and soaks up the liquid and fat without turning mushy.
Boiling water
Cooks the sausage and onion and provides the moisture that softens the bread.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper. 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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