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Beef and Oyster Sausages

A sausage made from beef, suet, breadcrumbs, and oysters, fried and served on fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Beef and Oyster Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Scald the oysters in their own liquor, then remove and chop them finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the beef, suet, breadcrumbs, egg, garlic, herbs, spices, and salt. Mix in the chopped oysters until well combined.

  3. Form the mixture into small sausages, about 3 inches long.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip each sausage in beaten egg yolk, then coat with breadcrumbs or dust with flour.

  2. Fry the sausages in ghee or fresh dripping until golden brown.

  3. Serve hot on fried bread.

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. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

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

  3. Oyster + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Oyster + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Add a briny, savoury flavour that gives the sausages their distinctive taste.
Beef
Provides the main meaty body and structure of the sausage.
Suet
Adds fat that keeps the sausages moist and juicy as they cook.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and help bind the mixture so it holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the sausages hold their form.

The step that matters

Fry the sausages until golden brown. Frying over steady heat browns the coating and sets the outside so the sausages hold shape. Too high heat can scorch the crumb before the centre cooks through.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, beef, egg, garlic, ghee, bread):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Pepperfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, beef, egg, garlic, ghee, 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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