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Pork Cutlets, Broiled

Broiled pork cutlets seasoned with salt and pepper, served with tomato or piquant sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the pork cutlets and score the skin at regular intervals.

  2. Flatten the cutlets with a rolling pin.

  3. Brush the cutlets with oil and season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Grill and serve

  1. Place the cutlets on a hot grill over a clear fire.

  2. Turn the cutlets occasionally until they are evenly browned and thoroughly cooked.

  3. Serve on a hot dish with sauce on the side.

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 + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

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

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

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 over the fire, with skin that is scored.
Oil
Coats the surface so the cutlets brown evenly and do not stick to the grill.

The step that matters

Turn the cutlets occasionally on the hot grill. Turning helps the cutlets brown evenly on both sides and cook through without the surface burning before the centre is done. Flattening first gives a thinner cut that cooks more evenly.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Carrotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper. 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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