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Pork Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Pork Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the fresh pork into pieces and stew in a skillet with slightly salted water until soft.

  2. Prepare a rich biscuit dough or plain pie paste.

  3. Line a quart basin with the paste and fill it with the stewed pork.

  4. Add pepper and chopped potatoes if desired.

  5. Cover the filling with the paste, pinching it tightly over the top.

  6. Tie a small cloth tightly over the basin, then place the basin in a larger cloth, gathering the corners and tying snugly over the top.

  7. Boil in a kettle for half an hour, ensuring the water is boiling hot before placing the basin in and keeping it boiling with a tight lid.

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. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Biscuit + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

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

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, biscuit, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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

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