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Pork Sausages

A traditional pork sausage made with fresh pork, spices, and sage, stuffed into skins or packed for later use.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,485 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ensure all skin, sinew, and bone are removed from the pork before chopping.

  2. Chop the pork finely and mix with seasonings: black pepper, cayenne, salt, and sage.

  3. Season well with nutmeg, mace, cloves, black pepper, and salt.

Fill and store

  1. Clean the sausage skins thoroughly and fill them with the meat mixture.

  2. Alternatively, pack the meat into jars covered to keep air out for later use.

Cook

  1. If desired, the sausages can be boiled until tender or fried in hot butter.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,485 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Sage + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Sage + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together642 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 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

Fresh pork
Provides the meat and fat that make up the body and juiciness of the sausage.
Pork fat
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the lean meat from drying out during cooking.
Bread crumbs
Absorbs juices and fat, helping the filling hold together and stay tender.
Sage
Contributes the herby aroma that defines the flavour of the sausage.

The step that matters

Ensure all skin, sinew, and bone are removed from the pork before chopping. Sinew and gristle do not break down during brief cooking and leave tough, chewy bits in the sausage. Removing them before chopping keeps the filling tender and evenly textured.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, sage, lemon, thyme, bread, nutmeg):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Winter savoryfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, sage, lemon, thyme, bread, nutmeg. 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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