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To Fry Beef or Pork Sausages

Fried beef or pork sausages served with mashed potatoes or toasted bread, optionally garnished with poached eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

To Fry Beef or Pork Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prick the sausages in several places with a fine fork to prevent bursting.

  2. Heat a pan over low heat and add the sausages.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the sausages slowly until cooked through, turning occasionally.

  2. Serve the sausages neatly on a flat dish with mashed potatoes or on toasted bread.

  3. Garnish with poached eggs if desired.

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef or pork sausages
Provide the main protein and are browned and cooked through in the pan.

The step that matters

Frying the sausages slowly. Low, gentle heat cooks the sausages through without burning the outside before the centre is done. Pricking them first lets steam escape so they do not burst.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, egg. 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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