Why it works: Pork and sweet potato work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓
Pork with Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pork roast, either stuffed or unstuffed.
When the roast is partly done, peel and slice the sweet potatoes.
Arrange the sweet potato slices around the meat in the pan.
Baste the roast often with gravy.
Bake for one hour.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Pork + sweet potatotop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together235 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
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