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Broiled Pork with Chili Sauce

Broiled pork cutlets served with chili sauce, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Broiled Pork with Chili Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chili sauce in advance in a large quantity.

  2. Place the pork cutlets between the bars of a double gridiron.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the cutlets over a moderate fire for about 20 minutes until browned.

  2. Transfer the cooked cutlets to a hot platter.

  3. Season the cutlets with salt and pepper, add a little butter, and serve with chili 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. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

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

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

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

  5. Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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 cutlets
Provide the meat that is cooked and browned by direct heat under the broiler.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the finished cutlets when added after cooking.
Chili sauce
Served alongside the cutlets to add heat and bright, acidic flavour.

The step that matters

Broiling the cutlets. Cooking over a moderate fire for about 20 minutes needs watching so the surface browns without drying the thin cutlets. Browning comes from Maillard reactions at the surface, and overcooking squeezes out moisture, leaving meat tough.

“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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