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Pork Chops, Bread-crumbed and Broiled

Breaded pork chops broiled over a clear fire, served hot with tomato or piquant sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pork Chops, Bread-crumbed and Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the pork chops and season them with salt and pepper.

  2. Dip the chops in clarified butter or brush them with oil.

  3. Coat the chops in beaten egg and then in bread crumbs.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the chops over a clear fire, turning them frequently.

  2. Serve very hot with tomato or piquant 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 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 chops
Provide the main meat, which cooks through over direct heat while staying juicy.
Clarified butter or oil
Adds fat that helps the crumbs brown and keeps the surface from drying out.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the chops.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns under the broiler.

The step that matters

Turning the chops frequently under the broiler. Direct high heat browns the crumbs quickly and can scorch them before the meat is cooked through. Frequent turning spreads the heat evenly, so the coating crisps without burning and the interior cooks at a steady rate.

“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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