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Sausage Rolls

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Why it works: Flour and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,081 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Sausage Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove fat from the meat and mince it finely.

  2. Season the minced meat with pepper and salt.

  3. Chop the sage leaves finely.

  4. Peel and chop the shallot and onion.

  5. Mix the chopped sage, shallot, and onion into the minced meat.

  6. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and clarified dripping.

  7. Rub the dripping into the flour until no lumps remain.

  8. Add enough water to form a stiff paste.

  9. Flour a surface and turn out the paste.

  10. Divide the paste in two to avoid overhandling.

  11. Roll each portion into a thin sheet, about ⅛ inch thick.

  12. Cut the paste into squares, approximately 6 inches each.

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. Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Shallot + sagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Shallot + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,431 recipes

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

  4. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Flour + sagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, flour, shallot, sage, egg):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, flour, shallot, sage, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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