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Breaded Pork Chops

Breaded pork chops are pork chops coated in egg and crushed crackers, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,121 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Breaded Pork Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Flatten the pork chops with a rolling pin.

  2. Place them in a pan and pour boiling water over them.

  3. Cook over heat for 5 minutes, then remove and dry the chops.

  4. Mix salt and pepper, then rub the mixture onto each chop.

Bread and fry

  1. Dip each chop first in the beaten egg, then in crushed crackers.

  2. Fry the chops in hot lard until golden brown.

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

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

  2. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the meat that is cooked through and served tender after frying.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the cracker coating sticks to the chops.
Crackers
Form a crisp, browned crust when fried.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and helps the coating turn golden brown.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded chops in hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the coating absorbs more fat and turns greasy before it browns. Hot fat sets the crumb quickly, forming a crisp crust that seals in moisture.

“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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