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Pork Chops

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Sorrel and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pork Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select pork chops from the kidney end of the loin, optionally including a slice of kidney.

  2. Season the chops with coarse sea salt and pepper.

  3. Cook the chops by frying, broiling, or stewing until they reach a temperature slightly above boiling water.

  4. Ensure the chops are thoroughly cooked without drying out.

  5. Serve the chops with your choice of sides, such as mashed potatoes, sorrel, spinach, Brussels sprouts, or sauces.

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. Sorrel + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + sorreltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  4. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Pepper + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 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

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, sorrel, brussels sprouts, cabbage, tomato, sauce):

  1. Lettucefits about as well
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, sorrel, brussels sprouts, cabbage, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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