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Pork Roast

Roast pork served with apple sauce, tomato sauce, and sweet potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sweet potato work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 359 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Pork Roast

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 oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Place pork in roasting pan and add a little water.

  3. Season pork with spices to taste.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast for 30 minutes per pound, basting often.

  2. Arrange sweet potatoes around roast for serving.

  3. Serve pork with apple sauce and tomato sauce.

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. Tomato + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together359 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

  3. Apple + sweet potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Apple + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together548 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 body of the dish; slow roasting turns its connective tissue tender and juicy.
Water
Adds a little moisture to the pan so the meat does not dry out early in roasting.

The step that matters

Roast for 30 minutes per pound, basting often. Pork cooked too long dries out, while undercooked pork is unsafe. Basting spreads juices over the surface and helps keep the outside moist while the centre cooks through.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sauce, tomato, sweet potato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sauce, tomato, sweet potato. 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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