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Roast pork served with mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, cabbage salad, apple pie, bread, and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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

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

Cook the main dishes

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

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

  3. Steam or boil the carrots until soft.

  4. Prepare a salad with the cabbage.

  5. Make apple pie using the pie crust and apples.

Serve

  1. Serve the roast pork with gravy, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, and salad.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Carrot + cabbagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,505 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork
Forms the main protein of the dish, becoming firm and savory as it cooks through.
Potatoes
Starch that softens when boiled and mashes into a smooth, moist side dish.
Apples
Fruit filling that softens and turns sweet and tart as it bakes in the pie.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor and giving the mash a smooth texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the mashed potatoes and creamed carrots.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, potato, carrot, apple, milk, butter, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, potato, carrot, apple, milk, butter, 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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