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Crown Roast

A roast made from a full loin of meat wrapped in salt pork and served with potato chips or creamed peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,208 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Crown Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ask your butcher to prepare a full loin and trim the rib bones to a uniform length.

  2. Roll the loin into a circle and tie it securely.

  3. Wrap a slice of salt pork around each bone to prevent burning.

Roast and finish

  1. Baste frequently with the fat in the pan.

  2. Cook for 15 minutes per pound.

  3. Cover each bone with a paper ruffle.

  4. Fill the center with potato chips or garnish with timbale cases filled with creamed peas or pea timbales.

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. Meat + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Pork + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,589 recipes

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

  3. Meat + peastop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pork + potato chiptop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + potato chiptop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Full loin of meat
Forms the main body of the roast, and its rib bones give the crown its shape.
Salt pork slices
Wrapped around the bones, its fat bastes the meat and protects the exposed bone ends from burning.
Potato chips
Fill the center of the crown as a light, crisp filling that sits around the cooked meat.

The step that matters

Basting with the pan fat. Frequent basting keeps the surface moist and helps it brown evenly. Without it, the thin, exposed parts of the loin can dry out and darken before the center is cooked through.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pork, potato chip):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pork, potato chip. 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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