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Breaded Pork Chops

Breaded pork chops fried in rendered fat after coating with beaten eggs and crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,371 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Breaded Pork Chops

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim excess fat from the pork chops.

  2. Fry the fat in a skillet until rendered.

  3. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

Bread and fry

  1. Roll the chops in the beaten eggs, then coat with bread or cracker crumbs.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Fry the coated chops slowly in the rendered fat.

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. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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 that is breaded and fried.
Eggs
Bind the crumbs to the meat so the coating adheres during frying.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the coated chops slowly in the rendered fat. Gentle heat lets the chops cook through to the center before the crumb coating browns too deeply. Too much heat can scorch the coating while leaving the meat underdone.

“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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