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Pork Cutlets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the pork neck cutlets neatly and brush them with warm dripping.

  2. Cook the cutlets in a hot frying pan for 12 minutes.

  3. Remove the cutlets and press them between two dishes until cool.

  4. Dust the cutlets with flour, dip them in beaten egg, and coat with seasoned breadcrumbs.

  5. Let the cutlets sit for 10-15 minutes to harden the crumbs.

  6. Fry the cutlets until nicely browned.

  7. Prepare the apples by peeling, quartering, and parboiling them.

  8. Drain the apples and fry them quickly in boiling dripping until brown.

  9. Serve the cutlets with fried apples in the center and surround with thick brown 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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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, flour, egg, pepper, parsley, onion):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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