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Grown of Pork

Stuffed pork chops filled with sausage and breadcrumbs, served with caramelized onions and Espagnole sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Grown of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chops

  1. Trim and shape the pork chops into a crown.

  2. Mix the sausage meat and bread crumbs, then moisten with the egg.

  3. Fill the center of the crown with the mixture.

Cook the onions

  1. Fry the onions in butter until light brown.

  2. Cook the fried onions in stock until tender.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

  2. Place some onions in the center of the pork and use the rest as a garnish.

  3. Serve with Espagnole sauce.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Pork + meattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Form the shell that holds the stuffing and provides the main meat for the dish.
Sausage meat
Adds fat and savory flavor to the stuffing, keeping it moist as it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help bind the stuffing so it holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the sausage and crumb mixture together so it holds its shape when roasted.
Onions
Soften in butter and stock, adding sweetness and a mild flavor to the dish.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, meat, bread, egg, butter, sauce):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, meat, bread, egg, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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