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A Simple Breakfast Dish

A breakfast dish of boiled pork sausages and tomatoes served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Simple Breakfast Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sausages

  1. Boil the sausages until cooked, then let them cool and remove the skins.

  2. Chop the sausages and leave them overnight.

Cook the mixture

  1. Place the sausages and tomatoes in the hot water from the boiled sausages, cover, and let them cook gently.

  2. Once cooled, remove the skins from the tomatoes and slice them.

  3. In the morning, place the sausage and tomato mixture in a baking dish half-filled with hot water on the stove.

Serve

  1. Make toast and spread the sausage and tomato mixture on the toast.

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. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  3. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork sausages
Provide the main meaty body and savory flavor of the topping.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity, softening into the sausage mixture as they cook gently.
Bread
Gives a crisp, toasted base that holds the warm topping.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Tomatothe original
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits less well
  4. Asparagusfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, bread. 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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