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Roast Pork

A roasted pork served with mashed potatoes, carrots, white sauce, buttered bread, and maple Bavarian cream dessert.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Roast Pork

Why it works: Potato and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,107 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Roast Pork

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the oven

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Cook the main dishes

  1. Season the pork and roast it until fully cooked.

  2. Boil the potatoes until tender, then mash them.

  3. Steam or boil the carrots until soft.

  4. Prepare the white sauce and serve it with the pork.

Serve

  1. Serve the mashed potatoes and carrots alongside.

  2. Slice the bread and serve with butter.

  3. For dessert, serve the maple Bavarian cream.

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. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 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
Provides the main protein, which sets and firms as it cooks through.
Potatoes
Starchy base that softens when boiled and holds together when mashed.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and a smooth mouthfeel to the bread.
Maple bavarian cream
Sweet, creamy dessert whose gelatin-set custard gives a soft, delicate texture.

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, potato, sauce, bread, butter, cream):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, potato, sauce, bread, butter, cream. 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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