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Pork Steaks

Pork steaks seasoned with pepper, salt, and butter, then broiled until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,933 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pork Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut pork from a loin or neck into medium-thick steaks.

  2. Season the steaks with pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks, turning often.

  2. When nearly done, sprinkle the steaks with coarse sea salt.

  3. Rub the steaks with butter.

  4. Serve immediately after removing from the fire.

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

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin or neck
Provides the meat for the steaks and sets their tenderness and juiciness.
Butter
Adds richness and a glossy finish that carries flavour across the surface of the steaks.

The step that matters

Turning the steaks often under the broiler. Broiling cooks quickly from direct high heat, so frequent turning helps the steaks cook evenly and keeps the outside from burning before the 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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