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A sausage made from pork, veal, suet, breadcrumbs, sage, marjoram, shallot, white pepper, and sea salt, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 507 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the pork, fat veal, lean veal, and suet.

  2. Combine with fine bread crumbs, sage leaves, marjoram, and shallot.

Season and shape

  1. Pound the mixture well and season with white pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Stuff the mixture into casings or shape into rolls and fry.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sage + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together507 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Pork + vealtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Marjoram + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together278 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pork + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,342 recipes

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

  5. Marjoram + white peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork
Provides fat and meaty flavour to the sausage mixture.
Fat veal
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture.
Lean veal
Gives the sausage its main body and texture.
Suet
Adds fat that keeps the sausage moist during frying.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb juices and help bind the mixture together.

The step that matters

Pound the mixture well. Pounding works the meat and crumbs into a uniform paste so the sausage holds together and has an even texture instead of crumbling when cooked.

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, veal, bread, sage, marjoram, shallot):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, veal, bread, sage, marjoram, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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