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Pork Chops a LA Tartare

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,050 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pork Chops a LA Tartare

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the pork chops with salt and pepper.

  2. Simmer the chops in a pan for a few minutes, turning them occasionally.

  3. Cut heart-shaped paper large enough to envelope one chop and oil it well.

  4. Place a tablespoon of sauce on the paper, then add a chop, more sauce, and fold the paper around the chop.

  5. Place the wrapped chop in a hot oven or broil slowly.

  6. For serving, thinly slice raw onions and pickled cucumbers, layering them with the hot chop.

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. Onion + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

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

  2. Vinegar + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  3. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + cucumbertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 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

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, vinegar, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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