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Veal Sausage

A patty made from finely chopped veal mixed with mashed potatoes, seasoned with pepper and sea salt, then fried until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Veal Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped veal and mashed potatoes. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Form the mixture into small cakes. Dust each cake with flour.

Fry

  1. Heat a skillet and fry the cakes until light brown on both sides.

  2. If available, use leftover sausage gravy for frying.

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. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Veal + potatotop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the meaty base and savory flavor of the patties.
Mashed potatoes
Adds moisture and binds the mixture so the cakes hold their shape.
Flour
Forms a dry coating that helps the cakes brown evenly in the skillet.

The step that matters

Fry until light brown on both sides. The cakes are delicate when formed, so they need a moderately hot skillet and a firm flip to keep their shape. Flour helps the surface brown through the Maillard reaction, which adds flavor and color.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, 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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