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Breaded Sausages

Breaded sausages are fried in boiling fat after being coated in beaten egg and bread crumbs, served with toasted bread and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breaded Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wipe the sausages dry.

  2. Dip the sausages in the beaten egg, then coat them with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Place the sausages in a frying basket and plunge them into boiling fat.

  2. Cook for ten minutes.

  3. Serve with a garnish of toasted bread and parsley.

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

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

  2. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  3. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sausages
Form the main filling and cook through in the hot fat.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the sausages.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating as they fry.
Boiling fat
Conducts heat quickly, browning and crisping the coating.

The step that matters

Plunging the coated sausages into boiling fat. The egg and crumb coating needs to be fully in contact with the hot fat so the egg proteins set and the crumbs crisp. If the coating is loose or the fat is not hot enough, the crumbs can slide off or absorb excess fat instead of browning.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, 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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