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Boiled Sausages

Sausages boiled in water, then served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Add sausages and simmer for 7 to 10 minutes, depending on their size.

  3. Remove sausages from water and serve on toast.

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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What each ingredient does

Sausages
Provide the main protein and flavor of the dish, cooked gently in simmering water.

The step that matters

Simmering the sausages. Simmering at a gentle heat cooks sausages through without splitting their casings, which can happen with a hard boil. Cooking time should follow sausage size, so check that they are heated through before serving.

“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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