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Pork Pot-pee

A pork stew with thinly sliced potatoes and biscuit dough, simmered in a buttery gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Pot-pee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stew

  1. Cover the pork with cold water and add lemon slices, parsley, and celery.

  2. Stew slowly for 30 minutes.

  3. Add the parboiled potatoes, season with pepper and salt, and dredge with flour.

  4. Cover and cook until the meat is tender.

  5. Stir in the butter rolled in flour.

  6. Bring to a boil.

Add the dough and serve

  1. Transfer the pork to a deep dish, leaving the gravy in the saucepan.

  2. Drop the biscuit dough strips into the boiling gravy.

  3. Cook for 10 minutes.

  4. Lay half of the biscuit strips across the meat in one direction. Lay the rest in another direction, creating a square pattern.

  5. Pour the gravy gently over the meat.

  6. Serve.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean pork
Provides the meat that becomes tender during slow stewing.
Potatoes
Thickens the gravy slightly as they break down during cooking.
Flour
Thickens the gravy as it cooks with the liquid.
Butter
Adds richness and body to the gravy when stirred in.
Biscuit dough
Cooks in the boiling gravy to become soft, dumpling-like strips.

The step that matters

Keep the gravy at a boil when adding the biscuit dough. Dropping the dough into gently boiling gravy and cooking it for the full time helps the strips set and cook through instead of turning gummy or soggy.

“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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