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Pork, Chine Of, Roasted

Roasted pork chine seasoned with oil and optional sage, served with gravy, apple sauce, tomato sauce, and piquant sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and apple work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 755 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Pork, Chine Of, Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Score the chine lengthwise.

  2. Brush the skin with salad oil.

Roast

  1. Place the meat a distance from a clear fire to heat gently before browning.

  2. Baste liberally during cooking.

  3. If desired, sprinkle 1 tablespoon of powdered sage over the meat 15 minutes before removing from the fire.

  4. Pour gravy around the meat, not on top.

  5. Roast for 20 minutes per pound.

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. Sage + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together755 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

  3. Sage + tomatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chine
Provides the main meat, whose fat and connective tissue keep the roast moist and flavourful as it cooks.
Salad oil
Coats the skin so it browns and crisps evenly in the heat.
Gravy
Poured around the meat to add moisture and savoury flavour to the pan juices.

The step that matters

Place the meat a distance from a clear fire to heat gently before browning. Starting with gentle, indirect heat warms the meat through evenly so the interior cooks without the outside scorching. Browning too fast on intense direct heat can char the surface before the centre is done.

Swap the sage

The recipe marks sage as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, apple, sauce, tomato):

  1. Celeryfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Sagethe original

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