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Pork Tenderloin

Pork tenderloin sliced and pan‑fried with butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, served hot with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,933 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pork Tenderloin

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Split the tenderloins in half lengthwise.

  2. Dust with salt and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry in a hot skillet with butter until cooked through.

  2. Dress on a hot dish and serve with a good sauce.

  3. Fried onions are a good accompaniment.

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

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork tenderloins
The main protein; lean meat that cooks quickly and dries out if overcooked.
Butter
Fat that carries heat in the pan and helps the surface brown and taste richer.

The step that matters

Fry in a hot skillet until cooked through. Tenderloin is very lean, so it moves from juicy to dry within a short time. Cooking it hot and checking doneness keeps the meat tender while making sure it is safely cooked through.

“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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