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Egg Pork

Pork slices are parboiled, seasoned, coated in an egg‑milk mixture, and fried until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Egg Pork

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pork

  1. Parboil the pork slices in water.

  2. Sprinkle a little pepper on the pork.

Fry and coat

  1. Heat a frying pan and add a small piece of butter.

  2. Fry the pork until nearly done.

  3. Beat together the egg and a little milk.

  4. Dip each slice of pork into the egg mixture.

  5. Return the pork to the pan and cook until fully done.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Pork + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork slices
Provide the main protein; parboiling first partly cooks them before frying.
Egg
Forms a thin coating that sets when fried, adding structure and a golden surface.
Butter
Adds fat for frying, carrying flavour and helping the coating brown.

The step that matters

Return the pork to the pan and cook until fully done. Egg coating sets quickly, so the pork must be cooked through gently after dipping; high heat can scorch the coating before the pork's centre is done.

“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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