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Sausage Meat Stuffing

A savory stuffing made with sausage meat, bread crumbs, lamb, onion, lemon rind, egg yolk, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Sausage Meat Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine sausage meat, grated lemon rind, bread crumbs, minced lamb, chopped onion, salt, and pepper in a bowl.

  2. Add the slightly beaten egg yolk to bind the mixture.

  3. Use as stuffing for mutton or game.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  3. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

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

  4. Meat + lambtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together469 recipes

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

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Supplies fat and seasoned meaty flavour that carries through the stuffing.
Minced lamb
Adds rich meaty flavour and extra fat, keeping the stuffing moist as it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Absorb meat juices and fat, adding body and a softer texture to the stuffing.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture together, as its proteins set when heated.
Grated lemon rind
Adds bright citrus aroma that lifts the rich meat flavours.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, lemon, bread, lamb, pepper, egg. 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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