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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Scrapple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak and wash all bloody pieces of hog's tongue, heart, liver, and any bones or trimmings.

  2. Place the cleaned pieces in a kettle and cover with water.

  3. Boil until tender and bones drop loose.

  4. Cut the meat using a sausage cutter while hot.

  5. Strain the cooking liquid and thicken it with corn mush meal, boiling well and stirring to prevent scorching.

  6. Ensure the mush is well cooked and stiff enough for a stick to stand in it.

  7. Once no raw taste remains, stir in the chopped meat and season with salt, pepper, and herbs.

  8. Mix thoroughly and pour into pans to cool.

  9. Once cooled, slice and serve like cheese or fry until crisp for breakfast, with tomato ketchup.

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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Liver + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).

  4. Corn + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together143 recipes

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

  5. Liver + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the sage

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

  1. Sagethe original
  2. Basilfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

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

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