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Sausages and Apples

Sausages and apples served on toasted bread, with fried apple slices and apple sections.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sausages and Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Fry or bake the sausages until cooked through.

  2. Slice some apples thinly and cut the rest into sections like orange segments.

  3. Fry the apple slices until golden brown.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the sausages crosswise on a square of toasted bread.

  2. Arrange the fried apple slices around the sausages and top with the apple sections.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

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

  4. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork sausages
Provide the savory, meaty main component of the dish.
Apples
Add sweetness and acidity, and brown in the pan for a caramelized flavor.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the apple slices brown in the pan.

The step that matters

Frying the apple slices until golden brown. Apples need enough heat and time for their natural sugars to caramelize and brown. Pale, undercooked slices stay soft and bland, while overcooked ones turn bitter and dry.

“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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