Name: Fried Apples for Breakfast
Ingredients: sour apples (Pippins, Northern Spies, etc.); thin slices of pork

Why it works: Apple and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,581 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Fried Apples for Breakfast

Ingredients

sour apples (Pippins, Northern Spies, etc.)
thin slices of pork

Directions

Fry the thin slices of pork in a skillet until crispy.
In the same hot fat, add the unpeeled apple slices and fry until tender.

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.

Apple + porktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,581 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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Fried Apples for Breakfast