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Potato Sausages

A baked sausage made from mashed potatoes, ground nuts, fish or meat, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Potato Sausages

Oven, in the book's wordsA fairly hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a fairly hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure. The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. In a bowl, mix the mashed potatoes, salt, ground nuts, fish, or meat, and pepper.

  3. Add the beaten egg and combine well.

Shape and bake

  1. Form the mixture into small cakes or sausages.

  2. Roll each in flour and place in a greased pan.

  3. Top each sausage with a small piece of fat or salt pork.

  4. Bake until brown, about 20-25 minutes.

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. Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Potato + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Nuts + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Provide the bulk and moisture that make the mixture hold together and stay tender.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the sausages keep their shape while baking.
Ground nuts, fish, or meat
Supplies the protein base and savory flavor of the sausages.
Flour
Coats the outside so the surface dries and browns during baking.

The step that matters

Shape and coat before baking. If the mixture is too wet or loose, the cakes can fall apart. A flour coating dries the surface, helping the shape hold and encouraging browning in the oven.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, pepper, egg, flour, pork):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, egg, flour, pork. 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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