Why it works: Pork and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 18,199 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Chop the raw fat salt pork and onions together until well mixed.
Apply the mixture in a thick layer directly to the wound or fold it into a single layer of linen.
Leave the poultice on until the wound is healed.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Pork + oniontop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together18,199 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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