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Sausage meat mixed with mushroom puree, bread crumbs, and flour, shaped and baked, served with gravy and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 411 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sausage Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix sausage meat with mushroom puree and enough bread crumbs to give consistency.

  2. Shape the mixture and coat it in flour.

Cook and serve

  1. Roast or bake the meat until cooked through.

  2. Serve with gravy made from the bones and a side of French beans or other 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. Mushroom + beanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Flour + beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,080 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  5. Bread + beanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Forms the main body of the meatballs and provides fat and savoury flavour.
Mushroom puree
Adds moisture and savoury depth to keep the meatballs from drying out.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape.
Flour
Coating that helps the outside brown and form a light crust.

The step that matters

Roast or bake until cooked through. Meat must reach a safe internal temperature throughout, and overcooking dries the meatballs. Checking the centre with a thermometer helps balance safety and tenderness.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, bread, meat, flour. 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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