Why it works: Pepper and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
Fbied Sausages
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the sausages and place them in a pan.
Prick them with a fork and set over a slow fire.
Turn them frequently until they are nicely browned but not too dry.
Cut each sausage into three pieces and 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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Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together85,593 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
- Sausages
- Provide the main protein and fat that fry, brown and flavour the dish.
- Butter
- Adds fat and richness to the pan, aiding browning and flavour.
The step that matters
Turning the sausages over a slow fire. Turning them frequently over gentle heat lets the fat render and the surface brown evenly without drying out the meat inside. Too much heat browns the outside before the centre cooks, and too little leaves them pale and greasy.
“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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