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Household Black-puddings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Household Black-puddings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the warm blood with ¼ cup of vinegar gradually while stirring.

  2. Add a few blades of thyme to the blood mixture.

  3. If using fresh guts, cleanse and soak them in a basin with a handful of coarse sea salt for 2 hours; if dry, soften in cold water.

  4. Cut onions into quarters and boil in salted water for 7-8 minutes, then drain.

  5. Cut the pork fat into small dice and warm in a stewpan with the onions for 20 minutes, then remove from heat.

  6. Pass the blood through a sieve into a stewpan and warm it on low heat while stirring continuously.

  7. When the blood is tepid, mix in the onion and pork fat, season, and add a little rum.

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. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Pork + thymetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Vinegar + rumtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, onion, pork, vinegar, rum):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Gingerfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, onion, pork, vinegar, rum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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