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Sausage Potatoes

A baked dish of sliced sausages and mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Sausage Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the sausages

  1. Boil the sausages until tender.

  2. Strain the sausages.

  3. Skin the sausages.

  4. Cut the sausages in half.

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Mash the warm potatoes with a fork.

  2. Add enough dripping to moisten the mashed potatoes.

  3. Season the mashed potatoes.

Assemble and bake

  1. Take a tablespoonful of the seasoned potatoes and form a mound on a greased baking sheet.

  2. Place a piece of sausage on top of the potato mound.

  3. Cover the sausage with more potato.

  4. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sausages
Provide the savoury meat filling enclosed within the potato mounds.
Potatoes
Form the soft, moist mashed coating that holds the sausage and browns in the oven.
Dripping
Adds fat that moistens the mashed potatoes and helps them brown.

The step that matters

Covering the sausage with potato. The sausage must be fully enclosed in mashed potato so it stays moist and the potato can form an even golden crust. Gaps let the meat dry out or show through during baking.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, parsley. 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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