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Slow Cooker Lancaster County Pork and Sauerkraut

"Old fashioned pork and sauerkraut that is served here on New Year's Day for luck! Serve with mashed potatoes, and apple sauce for dipping the pork in."

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Slow Cooker Lancaster County Pork and Sauerkraut

Why it works: Caraway and pepper work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 291 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Lancaster County Pork and Sauerkraut

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

248Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Caraway Seednot in our table0
Sauerkrautnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Caraway + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together291 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  3. Pork + carawaytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.