Name: Pork Chops
Ingredients: rib pork chops; sweet potatoes; sour apple sauce; jelly cake

Why it works: Sweet potato and apple work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 133 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Pork Chops

Ingredients

rib pork chops
sweet potatoes
sour apple sauce
jelly cake

Directions

Fry the rib pork chops slowly until cooked through.
Transfer the chops to a hot platter.
Brown boiled and peeled sweet potatoes in the remaining fat.
Arrange the sweet potatoes around the pork chops.
Serve with sour apple sauce and jelly cake.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Sweet potato + appletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together133 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,581 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Pork + sweet potatotop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together235 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,666 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sweet potato + saucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).