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Breaded pork chops coated in cracker crumbs, sage, onion, salt, and pepper, fried until cooked, served with apple sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the skin from the pork chops and dip them in the beaten egg.

  2. Coat the chops in cracker crumbs mixed with salt, pepper, sage, and minced onion.

  3. Refrigerate the coated chops for at least 1 hour.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry the chops, turning often, for at least 20 minutes.

  2. Serve hot with apple 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. Sage + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together755 recipes

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

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

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

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 meat that is cooked through and served.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the cracker crumb coating sticks to the chops.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Powdered sage
Adds an earthy, savory aroma to the coating.
Minced onion
Adds savory flavor and aroma to the coating.

The step that matters

Fry the chops, turning often. Turning often helps the coating brown evenly without burning, while the meat cooks through gently. Breaded coatings can scorch on one side if left too long on a single surface, and the pork needs enough time over heat to cook fully.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, egg, pepper, sage, onion, sauce. 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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