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Baked Sausages

Baked sausages served with potato puree and tomato sauce or brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Sausages

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderately quick oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Separate and prick the sausages.

Bake the sausages

  1. Place them in a greased baking dish and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until browned, basting occasionally.

Assemble and serve

  1. Prepare the potato puree and mix in the grated cheese.

  2. Using a piping bag, pipe the potato mixture into two rows down the center of a dish.

  3. Arrange the sausages side by side across the rows of potato, piping out a strip of potato between each.

  4. Pour tomato sauce or brown gravy around the sausages and serve.

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 + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,896 recipes

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

  5. Pork + cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,735 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork sausages
Browning and rich savory flavour as the main protein, which develops through baking and basting.
Grated cheese
Melts into the potato puree, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Potato puree
Soft, moist base that holds the sausages and cheese together on the dish.

The step that matters

Basting the sausages during baking. Basting moistens the surface and helps the sausages brown evenly, so they do not dry out or turn pale while the oven heats them through.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, cheese, potato):

  1. Tomatothe original
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, cheese, potato. 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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