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Pork Chops Champwellon

A pork chop dish cooked with onions, potatoes, parsley, and water in a bag.

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 them in flour.

Assemble and cook

  1. Layer the sliced onions and potatoes in a cooking bag.

  2. Add the seasoned pork chops, parsley, and water to the bag.

  3. Seal the 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.

Explore the science

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 protein, which cooks through in the sealed bag.
Flour
Coats the chops, helping them brown lightly and giving the juices some body.
Potatoes
Form a starchy base layer that absorbs flavour from the meat and juices.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften and release moisture in the bag.

The step that matters

Seal the bag and cook for 45 minutes. The sealed bag traps steam and moisture, so the chops cook in their own juices. A tight seal matters, because steam escaping lowers the moisture and can leave the meat drier.

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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