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Another Way to Make Sausages

A homemade sausage made with pork, fat, bread, spices, and egg yolks, boiled then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,485 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop together the pork and inward fat.

  2. Soak the bread crumb in cold water.

  3. Season the mixture with pepper, coarse sea salt, nutmeg, lemon thyme, and sage.

  4. Mix all ingredients well and half fill the sausage skins.

  5. Boil the sausages for half an hour.

Second recipe

  1. Mince the pork and beef suet very finely.

  2. Mix the minced meats with stale bread, black pepper, salt, and chopped sage.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks and mix thoroughly.

  4. Press the mixture into an earthen jar and store it tightly.

  5. When ready to use, form into rolls about 3-4 inches long and dust with flour.

  6. Heat a frying pan and fry the rolls in their own fat until cooked through.

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. Thyme + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Nutmeg + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together642 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 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

Lean pork
Provides the meaty structure of the filling.
Inward pig fat
Adds moisture and richness as it melts during cooking.
Stale bread crumb
Soaks up moisture and helps the filling stay tender.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture so it holds together when cooked.

The step that matters

Mix the filling thoroughly. Thorough mixing spreads the fat, meat, bread and egg evenly, so every bite has the same texture and the binder can hold the mixture together during cooking.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, lemon, thyme, sage, bread, egg):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, lemon, thyme, sage, 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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