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Pork Chops, Broiled

Broiled pork chops seasoned with pepper, salt, and optional herbs, served hot with various sauces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Chops, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the pork chops to less than ½ inch thick.

  2. Preheat the grill until hot.

  3. Season the chops with black pepper before grilling.

Grill and serve

  1. Place the chops on the grill at a distance that allows them to cook through.

  2. Cook for 16 to 18 minutes, turning frequently.

  3. Sprinkle a little coarse sea salt and optional herbs on the chops 2 to 3 minutes before they are done.

  4. Serve hot with tomato sauce, piquant sauce, Italian sauce, or Robert 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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. 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 protein, which becomes tender and juicy when cooked through without overcooking.

The step that matters

Turning the chops frequently while they cook. Frequent turning spreads the heat evenly so the chops cook through without the outside burning 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, pepper):

  1. Sagethe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper. 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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