Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,373 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
To Fry Sausages
Ingredients
Directions
Place the sausages in a frying pan and cover them with boiling water.
Cover the pan and let them simmer on low heat for 10-15 minutes.
Remove the sausages from the water using a skimmer or colander.
Roll each sausage in wheat flour until fully coated.
Heat lard or pork fat in a frying pan until hot.
Add the sausages to the pan and brown them on all sides.
Serve hot.
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.
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Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,373 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Wheat + porktop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together213 recipes
Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
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Flour + porktop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together11,187 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and pork barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,187 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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