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To Boil a Leg of Pork

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,069 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Boil a Leg of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the salted pork for 1 hour before cooking.

  2. Scrape and wash the pork carefully.

  3. Singe off any hairs using burning paper or corn husk.

  4. Put the pork in a pot with lukewarm water and boil slowly, skimming carefully.

  5. Keep the pot covered to retain moisture and nutrients.

  6. When done, scrape off any remaining dross.

  7. Serve the pork white, clean, and slightly underdone.

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 + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,069 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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