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Pork Chops, Savoury

A savory pork chop dish stewed with bacon, herbs, lemon, stock, and port wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Chops, Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the pork chops and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

  2. In a stewpan, combine bacon, trimmings, parsley, sage, shallot, salt, and white pepper.

Stew the chops

  1. Add the chops, cover, and stew gently for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove the chops and keep them warm on a hot dish.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Pour stock and lemon juice over the herbs and bring to a boil.

  2. Strain and skim off fat.

  3. Boil again with port wine and serve around the chops.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Parsley + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

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

  4. Sage + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin chops
Provides the main meat, which turns tender and juicy during gentle stewing.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor that carries into the herb sauce.
Port wine
Adds sweetness and depth to the sauce as it reduces.
Shallot
Contributes a mild onion aroma that builds the sauce's flavor base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, herb-flavored sauce.

The step that matters

Stew gently, do not boil. Gentle heat cooks the lean pork through while keeping it tender. A hard boil toughens muscle proteins and dries the meat, so keep the liquid barely simmering under the lid.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, parsley, sage, shallot, lemon, port wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, parsley, sage, shallot, lemon, port wine. 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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