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Pork or Beef Sausages

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Pork or Beef Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Finely chop the fat and lean pork and season well.

  2. Mix in the soaked bread crumbs.

  3. For flat sausages, add the beaten egg yolks.

  4. For Oxford sausages, add finely-shredded herbs to taste.

  5. For beef sausages, mince equal parts of fat and lean tender beef, adding bacon fat if desired.

  6. Season the beef mixture with pepper, coarse sea salt, shallot, and parsley.

  7. Soak a piece of bread in Rhine wine and mix it in for a lighter sausage.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  5. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, bread, milk, egg, beef, pepper, parsley):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, bread, milk, egg, beef, pepper, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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