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Pork Chops with Pimento Butter

Pork chops seasoned and grilled, rubbed with pimento butter, served with mushroom ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Pork Chops with Pimento Butter

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat your grill or broiler.

  2. Season the pork chops with salt and pepper.

  3. Rub half an ounce of pimento butter over each chop.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the chops until cooked through, about 5-7 minutes per side.

  2. Serve with mushroom ketchup.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Pork + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  3. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Mushroom + ketchuptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + ketchuptop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
The main protein; it sets to a firm, tender texture as it cooks through under direct heat.
Pimento butter
Adds fat and rich, sweet pepper flavour, and helps the chops stay moist and browned.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds a savoury, umami depth that complements the pork at the table.

The step that matters

Broil the chops until cooked through. Pork chops dry out quickly once past done, and thickness varies, so timing alone is unreliable. Checking doneness with a thermometer helps keep the meat juicy and safe.

“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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