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Ckeole Sausages

A stew of sausages in tomatoes with dumplings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,076 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Ckeole Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Brown the sausage

  1. Prick the sausages all over and place them in the bottom of a saucepan.

  2. Add a small bit of garlic.

  3. Brown the sausages.

Stew the tomatoes

  1. Add the tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and stew slowly for 30 minutes.

Make and cook the dumplings

  1. For dumplings, mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Add enough water to make a soft dough, similar to biscuit dough.

  3. Drop the dumpling mixture into the sausage and tomatoes, ensuring there is about 1 pint of liquid.

  4. Cover and cook for about 15 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. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausages
Provide the main meat and savory flavor as they brown and release fat into the stew.
Tomatoes
Supply acidity and liquid, and break down slowly into the body of the stew.
All-purpose flour
Forms the structure of the dumplings once mixed with water and cooked.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dough, helping the dumplings rise and turn light.

The step that matters

Keep the stew at the right liquid level before adding dumplings. The dumplings need enough liquid around them to steam and cook through; too little liquid lets them dry out and become dense, while too much makes them soggy. Covering the pan traps steam so they cook evenly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, tomato, pepper, flour):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, tomato, pepper, flour. 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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