Name: Curry Sausages
Ingredients: 4 pounds beef, veal, or pork sausage meat; 2 tablespoons cooked apple pulp (from baked apples); 1 large onion, fried and chopped; 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, finely powdered; 1 tablespoon good curry paste; stale fine crumbs, as needed

Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Curry Sausages

Ingredients

4 pounds beef, veal, or pork sausage meat
2 tablespoons cooked apple pulp (from baked apples)
1 large onion, fried and chopped
1 teaspoon mixed herbs, finely powdered
1 tablespoon good curry paste
stale fine crumbs, as needed

Directions

Prepare the sausage meat and season it as usual.
Mix the sausage meat with apple pulp, fried onion, mixed herbs, and curry paste blended with a little stock.
Beat the mixture well and add stale fine crumbs until it reaches the consistency of sausage meat.
Let the mixture stand in a cool place for a short time to soften the crumbs.
Fill the sausage skins with the mixture and cook as required.

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.

Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,092 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Apple + oniontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,206 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beef + appletop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,364 recipes

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