Why it works: Pork and turkey work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 830 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓
Roast Pork
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Select a cut of pork: leg, loin, fillet, or shoulder.
Prepare a stuffing as for turkey or season with onion and sage.
If the skin is left on, cut it into small squares; otherwise, sprinkle with powdered sage.
Roast
Baste the pork frequently.
Roast for 20 minutes per pound.
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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Explore the science
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.
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Pork + turkeytop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together830 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Turkey + sagetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together154 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
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Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,527 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Pork
- The main ingredient; the chosen cut sets how lean and tender the roast will be.
- Stuffing
- Adds flavour and moisture to the inside of the cut as it cooks.
The step that matters
Roast for 20 minutes per pound. Time per pound is only a rough guide, since cuts differ in shape and bone. Pork is safest and juiciest when judged by its internal temperature, not by the clock alone. Overcooking dries the meat, while undercooking leaves it unsafe.
Swap the sage
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, turkey):
- Sagethe original
- Thymefits about as well
- Marjoramfits less well
- Pepperfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, turkey. 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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