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Pork Cutlets and Onions

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 Cutlets and Onions

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Trim the cutlets neatly and sprinkle with pepper.

  2. Grill the cutlets for about five minutes, turning as needed.

  3. Dip the cutlets in warmed butter and coat with browned bread crumbs mixed with a pinch of cayenne and mixed herbs.

  4. Press the bread crumbs firmly onto the cutlets.

  5. Finish cooking in a 350°F (175°C) oven, on the grill, or by frying.

  6. Place a ring of fried bread in the center of the dish.

  7. Spread the fried bread thickly with fried onions.

  8. Fill the center with apple sauce mixed with a small amount of rich brown sauce.

  9. Arrange the cutlets around the fried bread and pour additional apple sauce around the base.

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 + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

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

  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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, butter, bread, onion, sauce):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, butter, bread, onion, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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