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Venison Sausages

Venison sausages are made from minced venison and pork mixed with sage, salt, and pepper, then packed and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper 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 ↓

Venison Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Chop the venison and fat pork, then mince them very fine.

  2. Add the sage, salt, and black pepper, and mix thoroughly.

Store

  1. Pack the mixture tightly into stone jars and cover well.

  2. Store in a cool, dry place.

Cook and serve

  1. When ready to use, shape into small flat cakes and fry them.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,527 recipes

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

  3. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  4. Venison + porktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Venison + peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together955 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Venison
Forms the lean meat base that gives the sausage its main flavour and texture.
Fresh fat pork
Adds fat that keeps the mixture moist and tender during frying.
Dried sage leaves
Contributes the herbal aroma that defines the flavour of the sausage.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the meat and helps draw out proteins that bind the mixture together.

The step that matters

Pack the mixture tightly into stone jars and cover well.. Tight packing and a full cover limit air contact, which slows spoilage and oxidation of the fat while the mixture is stored.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Rosemaryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, pork, 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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