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Sausage Stuffed Potatoes

Sausage stuffed potatoes are baked potato skins filled with sausage, cream, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sausage Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Wash and dry the potatoes.

  2. Bake the potatoes until fully cooked.

  3. Cut the potatoes in half and scoop out the insides without breaking the skins.

Make the filling

  1. Mix the scooped potato with seasoned sausage meat, a little cream, and butter.

  2. Stuff the potato skins with the filling and place them in a buttered pan.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for 30 minutes or until nicely browned.

  2. Serve hot.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Potato + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Large potatoes
Provide the starchy base that becomes fluffy when baked and scooped out.
Seasoned sausage meat
Adds savory flavor and fat to the filling, and browns on the surface during baking.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness so the scooped potato filling becomes soft and smooth.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the filling and helps the top brown.

The step that matters

Scoop out the insides without breaking the skins. The skins must stay intact to hold the filling. Scoop with a spoon while the potato is still warm, leaving a sturdy shell of flesh, so the stuffed halves keep their shape in the pan.

“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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