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Veal Sausages

A sausage made from equal parts veal and bacon, seasoned with sage, salt, pepper, and anchovies.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Veal Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop equal quantities of lean veal and fat bacon.

  2. Add a handful of sage, salt, pepper, and a few anchovies.

  3. Beat the mixture in a mortar until well combined.

Cook and serve

  1. Roll the mixture into sausage shapes and fry them.

  2. Serve with fried bread pieces or on a bed of vegetables.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Veal + sagetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together670 recipes

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

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

Lean veal
Provides the main meat body and structure of the sausage.
Fat bacon
Adds fat for moisture and juiciness as the sausage cooks.
Anchovies
Adds savoury depth that enriches the overall flavour.

The step that matters

Frying the shaped sausages. Fat in the bacon melts during frying, so cooking over moderate heat helps the sausages brown while staying moist inside. Too much heat can dry the lean veal or burn the outside before the centre is cooked through.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Sagethe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Marjoramfits less well
  4. Celeryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper. 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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