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Pork Chops Champwellon

Pork chops cooked in a bag with onions, potatoes, parsley, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Pork Chops Champwellon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the pork chops with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then coat with flour.

  2. Layer the sliced onions and potatoes over the chops.

  3. Add the parsley and water.

Cook

  1. Place everything in a cooking bag and cook for 45 minutes.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  4. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the main meat, whose fat and juices flavour the whole dish.
Flour
Coats the chops, helping them brown and thickening the juices in the bag.
Potatoes
Absorb cooking juices and soften into a starchy, tender layer.
Onions
Turn sweet and aromatic as they cook slowly in the trapped juices.

The step that matters

Sealing the cooking bag. The sealed bag traps moisture so the chops cook in their own steam, keeping them juicy. The full 45 minutes is needed so the thick pork cooks through.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, flour, potato, parsley):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, flour, potato, parsley. 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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